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The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666, [1] gutting the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, while also extending past the wall to the west.
The Monument to the Great Fire of London, more commonly known simply as the Monument, is a fluted Doric column in London, England, situated near the northern end of London Bridge. Commemorating the Great Fire of London, it stands at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill, 202 feet (61.6 m) in height and 202 feet west of the spot ...
Central London in 1666, with the burnt area shown in pink. This is a list of buildings that survived the Great Fire of London in 1666 and are still standing.
The Great Fire of London in 1666, which razed 436 acres of the mostly-timber city and lasted for four days, was so devastating it secured its place in the history books.
Monument Yard, close to London Bridge [8] St Magnus, London Bridge: St Martin Pomary: Ironmonger Lane (east side) St Margaret Lothbury: St Martin Vintry: Southwark Bridge at Thames Street: St. Michael Paternoster Royal (ibid) St Mary Bothaw: South of Cannon Street: St Swithin's, Cannon Street [9] St Mary Colechurch: South end of Old Jewry: St ...
The Great Fire of London, depicted by an unknown painter (1675), as it would have appeared from a boat in the vicinity of Tower Wharf on the evening of Tuesday, 4 September 1666. To the left is London Bridge; to the right, the Tower of London. St. Paul's Cathedral is in the distance, surrounded by the tallest flames.
Articles relating to the Great Fire of London (2–6 September 1666), which 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 , and most of the suburban slums .
Hubert had not even been in London at the time that the fire broke out — he had not even arrived in England until two days after the fire started. [6] That he was not in the country at the time of the outbreak of fire is not in doubt as testified, years later, by a captain of the Swedish ship the Maid of Stockholm , [ 7 ] that he personally ...