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St Stephen Walbrook, 39 Walbrook, London EC4 : tourist information from TourUK
Above the south door is the organ, built in 1906, by William Hill but with a case from 1765. On the north wall hangs 'The Martyrdom of St Stephen' by the American artist Benjamin West, who later became a Royal Academician in 1768. The most moving monument, however, is a telephone in a glass box, a t...
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St Stephen Walbrook - Visit London
Built in 1679, this light and airy building is considered to be the finest of Wren's City churches and a forerunner to St Paul's Cathedral. Some 16 pillars rise up to support its dome and ceiling, while a large cream-coloured boulder lies at the heart of its roomy central space. This is an altar by ...
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Walbrook Saint Stephens (church, London, United Kingdom) --�Britannica Online Encyclopedia
...the Baroque spirit in his late works by unifying them with a refined compositional vigour. Sir Christopher Wren presented English Baroque in its characteristic restrained but intricate form in St. Stephen's, Walbrook, London (1672), with its multiple changing views and spatial and structural comp...
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St Stephen Walbrook - Sightseeing, London Landmarks
The first telephone used by the Samaritans is on display inside the church, covered by a glass dome, rather like the Bat Phone. When we wrote to St Stephen Walbrook during the course of our research for Virtual London, we were very impressed that the great man, Chad Var...
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St Stephen Walbrook :: Home
The first stones of the new Church were laid on 17th December, 1672, by the Lord Mayor of London, the Lieutenant of the Tower of London, one of the Chicheley family, six members of the Court of the Grocers' Company (patrons of the Church), the Rector, two churchwardens and four other parishioners. T...
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London Taxi Tour guide to London churches-Saint Stephen's Walbrook.
Many of the designs he used here were later used on a greater scale in St. Paul's. The church was later described as one of Wrens masterpieces all over the world. In 1940 the church was badly damaged, but luckily many of 17th century fittings survived. The church is probably more famous for its conn...
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