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Key Image St Andrew by the Wardrobe
St Andrew’s Hill
EC4V 5DE London (City of London)
United Kingdom
Denomination: Anglican
Congregation: St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe with St. Ann Blackfriars (Diocese of London, Archdeaconry of London, The City)
Geogr. Coordinates: 51.51238° N, 0.10124° W
Geo Location
Reference year: 1694
Architectural style: Baroque
Building type: Hall Church
Description: Simple, three-aisled brick building with a south-west tower (side aisles as elevated galleries, chapel under the south aisle)
Name derivation: From St Andrew and the Royal Wardrobe, which was located nearby from 1361 onwards
Building material
  • Brick
Noteworthy
  • Monuments for William Shakespeare and John Dowland (congregation members for some time)
History:
1170:   First recording of a predecessor church
24/06/1417:   Dated charter mentioning Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley, as the church patron
Sep 1666:   Destruction during the Great Fire of London
1694:   Completion of the new church by Christopher Wren after a nine-year building period
1940:   Destroyed in World War II
1961:   Completion of the reconstruction by Marshall Sisson (begun in 1959)
Important persons:
Architect:  Wren, Christopher (1632–1723, British astronomer and architect)
Congregation member:  Shakespeare, William (1564–1616, English drama author, poet and actor)
Dowland, John (1563–1626, English composer)
Sources
Bradley, Simon, Nikolaus Pevsner: London: The City Churches, Yale University Press, New Haven/London 2002, pp. 59–60
St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe: Web-Site Kirchengemeinde, London, http://www.standrewbythewardrobe.net/, retrieved 01/05/2017
Wikipedia: St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe
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