St. Andrew's Churchyard
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St. Andrew's Churchyard

Holborn, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England

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    Holborn, London Borough of Camden, Greater London EC4A 3AB England
    Coordinates: 51.51731, -0.10661
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The first written record of the church itself is dated as 951 in a charter of Westminster Abbey, referring to it as the "old wooden church", on top of the hill above the river Fleet. The medieval St. Andrew's survived the 1666 Great Fire of London, saved by a last minute change in wind direction, but was already in a bad state of repair and so it was rebuilt by Christopher Wren. In what is his largest parish church, he rebuilt from the foundations (creating the present crypt) and gave the existing medieval stone tower (the only medieval part to survive) a marble cladding. During the London Blitz, on the night of 7 May 1941, the church was bombed and gutted by German bombs, leaving only the exterior walls and tower. However, instead of demolition which, it was decided that the church would be restored "stone for stone and brick for brick" to Wren's original designs. The church was designated a Grade I listed building on 4 January 1950. There were two overflow cemeteries that belonged to St. Andrew's. One between Plumtree Court and Stonecutter Street that is now covered by modern buildings and a second one know as St. Andrew's Garden's (consecrated in 1754). The churchyard to the north was excavated in 1871 and many of the burials was moved to London Cemetery.
The first written record of the church itself is dated as 951 in a charter of Westminster Abbey, referring to it as the "old wooden church", on top of the hill above the river Fleet. The medieval St. Andrew's survived the 1666 Great Fire of London, saved by a last minute change in wind direction, but was already in a bad state of repair and so it was rebuilt by Christopher Wren. In what is his largest parish church, he rebuilt from the foundations (creating the present crypt) and gave the existing medieval stone tower (the only medieval part to survive) a marble cladding. During the London Blitz, on the night of 7 May 1941, the church was bombed and gutted by German bombs, leaving only the exterior walls and tower. However, instead of demolition which, it was decided that the church would be restored "stone for stone and brick for brick" to Wren's original designs. The church was designated a Grade I listed building on 4 January 1950. There were two overflow cemeteries that belonged to St. Andrew's. One between Plumtree Court and Stonecutter Street that is now covered by modern buildings and a second one know as St. Andrew's Garden's (consecrated in 1754). The churchyard to the north was excavated in 1871 and many of the burials was moved to London Cemetery.

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