Survey of London Monograph 15, St Bride's Church, Fleet Street

An account of Christopher Wren's church of St Bride, Fleet Street, prepared as the building lay ruined by enemy action in December 1940.

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Walter H Godfrey, Survey of London Monograph 15, St Bride's Church, Fleet Street (London, 1944), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/bk15 [accessed 7 February 2025].

Walter H Godfrey, Survey of London Monograph 15, St Bride's Church, Fleet Street (London, 1944), British History Online, accessed February 7, 2025, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/bk15.

Walter H Godfrey. Survey of London Monograph 15, St Bride's Church, Fleet Street (London, 1944), British History Online. Web. 7 February 2025. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/bk15.

Table of Contents

Title Page(s)
Members of the Survey Committee vii-viii
List of plates ix-xi
Heraldic illustrations xii
Preface xiii-xv
History of St Bride's: The advowson 3-6
History of St Bride's: The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries 6-9
History of St Bride's: The fifteenth-century rebuilding 9-12
History of St Bride's: Clergy and parishioners in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries 12-15
History of St Bride's: Guilds, fraternities and charities 16-24
History of St Bride's: The seventeenth century to the Great Fire 24-28
History of St Bride's: Building the New Church 29-33
History of St Bride's: The Great Fire to 1944 33-38
Rectors and vicars 39-40
The architecture of St Bride's: Fabric 41-46
The architecture of St Bride's: Fittings 46-55
The architecture of St Bride's: Monuments 55-113
Appendix 1: Guild documents 114-121
Appendix 2: Contributions to the medieval fabric 121-123
Appendix 3: Wren's building accounts and churchwardens' accounts 123-138
Index 145-154
Plate 1: Plan of the ward of Farringdon Without 1
Plate 2: Elevation of north side 2
Plate 3: North elevation and plan 3
Plate 4: West and east elevations 4
Plate 5: Plan and cross-section 5
Plate 6: North and east elevations and sections 6
Plate 7: Elevation of the west front, tower and spire 7
Plate 8: Details of spire 8
Plate 9: Wren's design for cupola 9
Plate 10: Perspective view from west, 1753 10
Plate 11: Drawing of church with St Paul's 11
Plate 12: Drawing of tower and spire 12
Plate 13: Tower from the north 13
Plate 14: The church from Fleet Street, 1827 14
Plate 15: Tower and spire 15
Plate 16: Church from Salisbury Square 16
Plate 17: Exterior from east, after raid 17
Plate 18: Exterior from north-east, after the raid 18
Plate 19: East window after raid 19
Plate 20: Exterior from north-east after raid 20
Plate 21: North entrance door 21
Plate 22: North clerestory and tower 22
Plate 23: South aisle and clerestory and tower 23
Plate 24: South clerestory and arcade 24
Plate 25: North clerestory from tower 25
Plate 26: Urns on tower parapet 26
Plate 27: Steeple staircase, detail 27
Plate 28: Steeple staircase, detail 28
Plate 29: Interior in 1835 29
Plate 30: Interior, looking east 30
Plate 31: East end (interior) 31
Plate 32: Interior, view from west 32
Plate 33: Sanctuary 33
Plate 34: Interior, looking west 34
Plate 35: Interior, west end 35
Plate 36: Screen at west end 36
Plate 37: Vestibule and screen 37
Plate 38: Base of tower 38
Plate 39: Base of tower, domed roof 39
Plate 40: Base of tower, detail 40
Plate 41: Base of tower, detail 41
Plate 42: Base of tower, detail 42
Plate 43: Entrance to tower after raid 43
Plate 44: Communion table 44
Plate 45: Font 45
Plate 46: Gallery 46
Plate 47: Plate 47
Plate 48: Plate 48
Plate 49: Plate 49
Plate 50: Pulpit 50
Plate 51: Reredos 51
Plate 52: Sword-rest 52
Plate 53: Vestry 53
Plate 54: Vestry after raid 54
Plate 55: Entrance to Holden Vault 55
Plate 56: Iron grille to Holden Vault 56
Plate 57: Interior after the raid 57
Plate 58: Interior after the raid 58
Plate 59: South aisle after the raid 59
Plate 60: South aisle after the raid 60
Plate 61: South aisle after the raid 61
Plate 62: North aisle after the raid 62
Plate 63: North aisle after the raid 63
Plate 64: Arcade after raid 64
Plate 65: Memorial tablet to Revd. James Palmer 65