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	St Lawrence Jewry next Guildhall Guildhall Yard EC2V 5AA London (City of London) United Kingdom
Denomination:	Anglican
Geogr. Coordinates:	51.51529° N, 0.09237° W
Reference year:	1677
Architectural style:	Neo-classical
Building type:	Single-nave church
Description:	Neo-classical single-nave church, “Commonwealth Chapel” attached to the north, west tower; official church of the City of London Corporation (the world’s oldest democratic regional entity in uninterrupted existence) and for the Lord Mayor of the City of London (with separate seats for the officers of the Corporation)
Name derivation:	From St Lawrence, its location on the edge of the medieval Jewish quarter and its neighbourhood to the Guildhall


Organ	Built in 2001 by Johannes Klais, Bonn/Germany, reusing the original organ case
Windows	Stained glass windows (Christopher Rahere Webb, 1959–60; esp. Christopher Wren memorial window in the entry hall)

History:

1190:	First mention of a precursor church
Sep 1666:	Destroyed in the Great Fire of London
1677:	Completion of the six-year reconstruction by Christopher Wren
29/12/1940:	Destroyed during the Second World War
1957:	Painstaking restoration by Cecil Brown (startet 1954)

Important persons:

Architect:	Brown, Cecil (1902–1983, British architect) Wren, Christopher (1632–1723, British astronomer and architect)
Patron:	Lawrence (?–258, deacon and martyr)

Sources

Bradley, Simon, Nikolaus Pevsner: London: The City Churches, Yale University Press, New Haven/London 2002, pp. 95–96

Kenyon, Nicholas (Hg.): The City of London – Architectural Tradition & Innovation in the Square Mile, Thames & Hudson, London 2012, pp. 170–171

Tucker, Tony: City of London Churches, Guidelines Books, Stoke-on-Trent 2013, pp. 58–59