St Dunstan in the East Church Garden

This guide to St Dunstan in the East in London starts with the nineteen forty-one Blitz raid that gutted the medieval church, and traces back to the Great Fire of sixteen sixty-six that first brought Christopher Wren here to rebuild it. You'll hear why Wren broke from his usual classical style and gave the church a Gothic steeple with four flying buttresses, and what became of that steeple when the bombs fell centuries later. Stand back far enough to take in the full height of the tower before you look for what grew up around its ruins.