Building: The place which we
want feature is St. Anne and St. Agnes church. This small
church in Gresham Street is a couple of minutes walk from
St. Paul's Cathedral. The church is tucked behind some trees
and a small church graveyard. The first time that this church
was mentioned, was in the year 1150. In Norman records it
is called Saint Anne-in-the-Willows and was also known as
Saint Agnes. This caused confusion and resulted in the unusual
double name being used since the 15th century. During the
course of time the church was rebuilt several times. It was
destroyed during the Great Fire of London and rebuilt in 1548,
a further large renovation in 1680, more reconstructions in
the 18th and 19th century and we cannot omit the rebuild after
the London blitz during the Second World War. During these
heavy constant bombardments 100,000 houses and a third of
London was destroyed including this church.
Although originally Anglican, the church has been used
by the Lutheran church in Great Britain since 1966.
