Stained glass window, St Mary-le-Bow Church, City

Stained glass window by John Hayward, St Mary-le-Bow Church, Cheapside, City of London, England. This is the West window, South side, and depicts St Thomas a Beckett. The window dates from 1964 and is part of the restoration of the church after it was damaged in the Blitz of 1941. Sir Christopher Wren rebuilt this church after it was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. True cockneys are said to be born within the sound of its Bow bells. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Anglican Anglicanism Beckett Bells Cheapside Cockney Diocese Grade Hayward Isles Mary-le-bow Proestant Protestantism Wren

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