St Mary Woolnoth

St. Mary Woolnoth, situated at the apex of the angle formed by King William Street and Lombard Street, is a very conspicuous object.

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Rebuilt and finished under the guidance of Hawkesmoor, a pupil of Wren, it was opened on Easter Day, 1727.

It is richly and beautifully decorated, and almost square, being built in the form of the Roman atrium; the ceiling is profusely ornamented with panels, and carvings in stone, and at the east end is a recessed square for the altar-piece, under an oak baldachino carried by two twisted columns.

John Newton, a famous hymn-writer, was buried here, but his remains and those of his wife have been removed to Olney, a place indissolubly associated with Newton and Cowper.

St. Mary's is unique among churches in having had its foundations entirely replaced by huge iron girders, below which is the City station of the City and South London Electric Railway, as it was in 1900.

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