2J- Monument

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2J- Monument

2J - The London Monument Class

Teacher - Mr Jenkins

T.A. - Mr Sheikh

The Great Fire of London The Great Fire began in the bakery of Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane, 62m (202ft) from the site of The Monument, during the early hours of the 2nd September 1666. Over the next four days, fire spread to the very edges of the City of London. Six people are recorded to have perished in the blaze, though it is likely that the death toll was higher than this. 85 churches, 13,000 houses and the Medieval cathedral of St Paul’s were destroyed: about one third of the City of London.

With destruction on this scale, both Parliament and the King agreed that the Fire should never be forgotten and so in 1671 the building of ‘The Monument to the Great Fire of London’ was begun. The Monument to the Great Fire of London The Monument was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Dr. Robert Hooke. It stands on the site of St Margaret’s, the first church destroyed in the Fire. If you laid The Monument down horizontally (and in the correct direction!) it would reach to the spot on Pudding Lane where the Fire started.