Christopher Wren 300th Anniversary

Monument Tube, Fish Street hill exit

Guided by Mary B.

Adult: £20 · Students & Seniors: £15 · Children: £5

Walk Times

A Celebration of the works of Sir Christopher Wren 1632-1723

Sir Christopher Wren, Britain’s greatest architect. This year a celebration of his life and work. The City of London, still resonates to the glory of his achievements seen across its skyline in stone. The Kings Surveyor in 1666 Wren rebuilt a City laid to ashes by the Great Fire of London.

Starting from the Monument, a memory of the Great Fire, we trace medieval streets and passageways exploring Wren’s city.

Not just a street view, but a bird’s eye view and peeks inside Wren churches, each unique with differing stories to tell.

Sights we see along the way include:

A City Church whose tower portico was the gateway to old London Bridge.

Wren’s practice Dome before St Paul’s Cathedral, his own local church!

An altar known as “the Camembert”

A shoemakers Church

Where Londons Bow Bells ring

Garden spaces created from Wren Churches destroyed in WW2

Finishing at St Paul’s Cathedral, Wren’s grandest work. Iconic, an ornate baroque edifice of stone, steeped in the national story of Remembrance, Royalty and Faith.

Meeting Point:

Monument  Tube station. Fish Street Hill exit.

The Monument. The first work by Wren we see. It’s just a few yards down the hill from the Fish Street Hill exit of Monument  Tube station. N.B., if you can’t see the Monument you’re standing outside the wrong exit.

And, as ever with London Walks, a brilliant guide. “It all comes down to the guiding.”