Title

St Giles' Cripplegate, Fore Street, City and County of the City of London, GLA, 1941-1945. Creator: Charles William Prickett.

Caption

St Giles' Cripplegate, Fore Street, City and County of the City of London, Greater London Authority, 1941-1945. A view looking north-west across a bomb damaged landscape towards St Giles' Cripplegate Church in the distance with St Mary Aldermanbury on the right of the foreground. St Mary Aldermanbury which was rebuilt by Christopher Wren after the Great Fire of London in 1666 was later gutted by fire during the Blitz in 1940. The remains of the walls were removed and rebuilt in Fulton, Missouri in 1966 as a memorial to Winston Churchill, although the footings of the church remain on the original site in a public garden.

Date

1941

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Reference

HRM21B21_376

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

96,0Mb (4,4Mb) / 22,3in x 16,7in / 6703 x 5007 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors building England destruction religious country religion British English church damage ruins medieval ruin Christian Christianity war location century city of london estate Britain wartime concept ruined B&W 1940s warfare Forties bombed World War II World War two WWII bombing black & white black and white B W mediaeval Middle Ages world war 2 20th century air raid Blitz aerial warfare bomb damage church tower decade Fore Street Home Front Second World War St Mary Aldermanbury TGN WW2 outside street photograph 2nd World War Barbican Estate St Giles Cripplegate Historic England Charles William Prickett Prickett Charles William