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Fenchurch Street is a street in the City of London linking Aldgate at its eastern end with Lombard Street and Gracechurch Street to the west. To the south of Fenchurch Street and towards its eastern end is Fenchurch Street railway station, a mainline railway terminus with services towards east London and Essex. The entire length of the road is served by London Buses route 40.
Fenchurch Street is home to a number of shops, pubs and offices, including Plantation Place and 20 Fenchurch Street which is being rebuilt as a new 525 ft tall skyscraper, due for completion in 2014.
Located at No. 71 is Lloyd's Register of Shipping, where the annual journal Lloyd's Registry was previously published. The frontage on Fenchurch Street was built in 1901 by Thomas Edward Collcutt and is a Grade II* listed building.[1] The more modern building behind was designed by Richard Rogers and towers over it. This was completed in 1999 and became a RIBA award-winner in 2002.
At the street's eastern end and junction with Aldgate is the Aldgate Pump, a historic water pump which has been designated a Grade II listed structure. Further west, Fenchurch Street's junction with Lime Street was formerly the location of a Christopher Wren church, St. Dionis Backchurch. First built in the 13th century dedicated to the patron saint of France, it was destroyed during the Great Fire of London in 1666, later rebuilt by Wren, and then demolished in 1878.[2] Nearby, the church of St. Gabriel Fenchurch also stood on Fenchurch Street at its junction with Cullum Street. A blue plaque outside Plantation Place marks the site opposite where the church once stood before its destruction in the Great Fire.
The nearest London Underground stations are Tower Hill and Monument.
[edit] References
- ^ Listing details, 71 Fenchurch Street, English Heritage accessed 21 Jun 2007
- ^ Smith, A. (1970). Dictionary of City of London Street Names. David & Charles. p. 68. ISBN 0-7153-4880-9.
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Coordinates: 51°30′43″N 0°4′50.8″W / 51.51194°N 0.080778°W / 51.51194; -0.080778
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Fenchurch Street is now virtually unrecognisable. Since the Victorian Railway Station built behind Crutched Friars, the outlook must have changed completely. Crutched Friars has a massive railway bridge built across it, and it is difficult to imagine how it must have looked in 1660. However, in one of the ‘railway arches’ is the Crutched Friars Pub. Tiny and welcoming… but avoid at lunchtimes when it is full of office workers.
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Fenchurch Street stretches left to right across the middle of this 18th century map.
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