St Andrew Undershaft
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St Andrew Undershaft is a Church of England church in the City of London, the historic nucleus and modern financial centre of London. It is located on St Mary Axe, within the Aldgate ward, and is a ra
St Andrew Undershaft in 2013
St Andrew Undershaft in 2001
1841 illustration of the Undershaft maypole
The organ in St Andrew Undershaft
John Stow
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John Stow was an English historian and antiquarian. He wrote a series of chronicles of English history, published from 1565 onwards under such titles as The Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles, The Chroni
St Andrew Undershaft
…student riots put an end to it, but the maypole itself survived until 1547 when it was seized by a mob and destroyed as a "pagan idol". According to John Stow, the chronicler who is buried here, they had it "raised from the hooks whereon it had rested for two-and-thirty years, sawn in pieces and burnt." St…
Monument with effigy of John Stow, Church of St Andrew Undershaft, City of London, with arms of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors and Latin inscription: "Either do things worth writing or write things worth reading"
Stow's Survay of London, 1618 edition
An 18th-century engraving of Stow's monument