Pudding Lane is a narrow thoroughfare in the City of London that runs between Eastcheap and the Thames. Its name refers to the medieval term for animal offal, which butchers from the nearby Eastcheap market once transported down this route…
Great Fire of London Walk
This walk retraces the devastating path of the 1666 inferno, starting at the bakery where it began and visiting ruins and rebuilt landmarks on the way to where the flames were finally stopped.
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1. Pudding Lane
2. Monument to the Great Fire of London
The Monument to the Great Fire of London is a fluted Doric column of Portland stone that rises two hundred two feet into the air. Topped by a gilded urn of fire, it stands at the junction of Fish Street Hill and Monument Street. Its height…
3. St Dunstan in the East Church Garden
St Dunstan in the East Church Garden is defined by the roofless, vine-draped stone walls of a medieval church that rise directly from a public park. The site features an intact steeple and tower designed by Sir Christopher Wren, which…
4. Leadenhall Market
Leadenhall Market is defined by its ornate, wrought-iron and glass arcade, painted in distinctive shades of green, maroon, and cream. Designed by Sir Horace Jones and completed in eighteen eighty-one, the structure sits upon a site that…
5. The Royal Exchange
The Royal Exchange is identified by the massive, eight-column portico at its entrance, modeled after the Pantheon in Rome. Established in fifteen seventy-one by Sir Thomas Gresham, the building served as London's first purpose-built center…
6. Guildhall
The Guildhall features a courtyard with a black circle paved into the ground, tracing the outline of the Roman amphitheater that once occupied this site. Since at least the twelfth century, this location has functioned as the…
7. St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Paul's Cathedral is defined by a massive, lead-covered dome that rises three hundred sixty-five feet above the crest of Ludgate Hill. This pale Portland stone structure dominates the London skyline, its English Baroque silhouette…
8. Golden Boy of Pye Corner
The Golden Boy of Pye Corner is a small, gilded wooden statue of a naked, portly boy. He sits in a niche on the corner of Giltspur Street and Cock Lane, staring out with a fixed, heavy expression. This figure marks the spot where the Great…