St Anne's Church - London, England, UK
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N 51° 30.735 W 000° 07.935
30U E 698986 N 5710690
St Anne's Church was burned out during the blitz on September 24, 1940.
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Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/24/2014
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This Anglican church was consecrated in 1686.
Wikipedia (
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"The whole church was left burned out on the night of 24 September 1940 during the Blitz, apart from the tower, which was left derelict. St. Thomas's, Regent Street (now demolished), and the adjoining St. Anne's House in the "Upper Room" (now known as the "Allen Room") were used for worship from then on. Though Jacques Groag in 1945 proposed keeping the ruins as a war memorial, it was by 1949 assumed that the church would not be re-built, and so in 1953 the remains of the east wall (the only significant parts left standing) were demolished, the site deconsecrated and prepared for sale, and the parish amalgamated with those of the churches of St. Thomas's, Regent Street and St. Peter's, Great Windmill Street (creating the Parish of St Anne with St Thomas and St Peter, centred on St Thomas's).
The tower was used as a chapel for a time in the 1950s, partly restored in 1979 by The Soho Society, and fully restored in the 1990-91 re-building of the whole church - the tower is now a Grade II listed building. That reconstruction had been the result of London County Council's policy to keep Soho as a residential area, was facilitated by a new private act of parliament in 1965 allowing the site to be cleared, and began in earnest with a foundation stone laid by Princess Anne on 12 March 1990."