St Katharine Cree

St Katharine Cree Church dates from 1631, and is the only Jacobean church to have survived in London, and is regarded as one of the most significant churches of the Jacobean period, a time when church building in England was at historically low. "Cree" is a corrupted abbreviation of "Christ Church". The church amazingly escaped the Great Fire of London in 1666 and only suffered minor damage in the German bombing raids of the Second World War. However, the Grade I listed building developed structural problems, which required extensive restoration in 1962. Once again, it is yet another beautiful old piece of historic London that is dwarfed and overlooked by the buildings of the modern metropolis.
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