You can admire its beautiful craftmanship if you visit St Sepulchre-without-Newgate where it rests on a new font, the original having been destroyed in the bombing (EC1A 2DQ).Īnother survivor of the Blitz can be found in St Botolph Without Aldgate (EC3N 1AB). Made of oak, it was created about 1690 and is typical of many such covers made for City churches after the Great Fire of 1666. On the night of December 30th 1940, when Christchurch Newgate Street was a blazing inferno, an unknown postman rushed into the building, grabbed this font cover and carried it to safety …
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