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Great Fire of London
The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London from Sunday, 2 September to Thursday, 6 September 1666. The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall. It threatened but did not reach the aristocratic district of Westminster, Charles II's Palace of Whitehall, or most of the suburban slums. It consumed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, St Paul's Cathedral, and most of the buildings of the
the site of the parish church of St Benet Sherehog before and after the Great Fire: excavations at 1 Poultry, City of London" London, Museum of London Archaeological Service, Monograph Series, 2007
- Reynolds, H, "The Churches of the City of London", London, The Bodley Head, 1922
- 'Letter from Michael Gibbs, 33 Walbrook concerning the separateness of two church wardens’ duties'. "The Times", Thursday, Sep 21, 1843; pg. 5; Issue 18407