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Christopher Wren

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The Cabinet June 27, 2026 · Pudding Lane, City of London

The Bakery Fire on Pudding Lane That Burned Four-Fifths of the City of London in Four Days and Killed Only Six Documented People

A fire began at the bakery of Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane in the early hours of Sunday 2 September 1666. By the time it was extinguished on 6 September it had destroyed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, and St Paul's Cathedral across approximately 175 hectares — about four-fifths of the City of London. The documented death toll is six. The actual toll was probably higher but cannot now be reconstructed.

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The Cabinet June 24, 2026 · Pudding Lane, City of London

The Five Days in September 1666 That Burned Down Most of Medieval London

The Great Fire of London began in a Pudding Lane bakery on the night of 2 September 1666 and burned for five days, destroying about 13,200 houses and most of the medieval City. It killed almost nobody — official records list six dead — but ended the 1665 plague and gave Christopher Wren the largest urban-rebuilding contract in English history.

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The Footnote June 24, 2026 · Christ Church Greyfriars site, London

The London Franciscan Church Where Three Medieval Queens Were Buried and Whose Site Is Now a Vacant Plot Behind Newgate

The Greyfriars Church at Newgate was the Franciscan mother house in England and the burial site of Queens Margaret of France, Isabella of France, and Joan of the Tower. Henry VIII's Dissolution stripped the church of its monastic income; the Great Fire of 1666 destroyed the rebuilt structure; the World War II Blitz finished the remains.

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