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St. Bride's Church
 St. Bride's Church ... century. The wedding cakespire rises 226 feet above the city. The Crypt Museum provides a capsule history of London and displays remnan Newest Review: ... but soon playwrights and pamphleteers came to see de Worde, and it wasn't long before other printers were setting up premises in the area. Great writers soon flocked to the area, and in 1702, London's first newspaper, the Daily Courant, was published "next door to the King's Arms Tavern" on ... more ... Fleet Street. Until the mid-Twentieth century, 250 years later, Fleet Street was the home to offices and presses for all the major newspapers. However, although the 1980s saw the decampment of most newspapers to Docklands, most still have links ...more |
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St. Bride's Church: The Printers' Church (1188 words)
by MykReeve - written on 14.04.01 (Very useful, 210 readings)
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Located just off Fleet Street in the City of London, St. Bride's Church has been a site of Christian worship for over 1,500 years, and was named after St. Bridget of Kildare. It has one of the most distinctive spires among British churches, with a series of tiered layers, which was the inspiration for the first tiered wedding cake, constructed by an enterprising Fleet Street baker over three hundred years ago. HISTORY In the Blitz, during the Second World War, a bomb blast levelled much of the site of St. Bride's Church, and for seventeen years, the church remained a shell. However, during this seventeen year period, extensive excavation work ...
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