https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/08/27/relics-at-st-pauls-from-before-the-fire/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:53:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/08/27/relics-at-st-pauls-from-before-the-fire/#comment-2173896 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:53:56 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207881#comment-2173896 For a moment, looking at some of those effigies, I imagined I had been transported back to the future: modern day Tower Hamlets.

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]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2026/08/27/relics-at-st-pauls-from-before-the-fire/#comment-2173887 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:33:38 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=207881#comment-2173887 First, Sir John and Eliza Wolley certainly are macabre. And a completely unrelated second note, I found it rather odd that Sir Christopher Wren’s tomb is stuffed into a corner in the crypt, beside a modern-day radiator. You would think they might have given him a more grand spot. No wonder his son felt moved to provide the famous Latin inscription: “Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice,” which translates to “Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you.”

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