All-Hallows-the-Great
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All-Hallows-the-Great was a church in the City of London, located on what is now Upper Thames Street, first mentioned in 1235. Destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666, the church was rebuilt by
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All-Hallows-the-Great, 1812 engraving by Joseph Skelton after John Coney.
All Hallows the Great, John Crowther, watercolour, 1884.
The carved rood screen and the sounding board which were later moved to St Margaret Lothbury
Steelyard
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The Steelyard, from the Middle Low German Stâlhof, was the kontor of the Hanseatic League in London, and their main trading base in England, between the 13th and 16th centuries. The main goods that th
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…sold at the nearby Hay Wharf and ropes were made in the high street. All-Hallows-the-Great was also the church of the German community of the nearby Steelyard, since the Hanseatic community had only a chapel of their own on the Steelyard premises. The church was sufficiently large to include a large cloister…
A commemorative plaque placed in 2005 at Cannon Street station, near the location of the Steelyard
A reproduced painting of the Steelyard (Souvenir of the British Exhibit in the Hall of Nations IPA Leipzig, 1930)
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