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St. Stephen Walbrook

Address: 39 Walbrook St., The City, London, EC4N 8BN | Map It
Phone: 020/7626-9000
www.ststephenwalbrook.net

Category: Religious Sites
Location: The City

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Fodor's Review:

This is the parish church many think is Wren's best, by virtue of its practice dome, which predates the one at St. Paul's by some 30 years, and its celestial atmosphere inside. Yet there's far more to the history of the church than as a dry run for its next-door big brother. There has been a church here since the 7th century, built on the site of an older Roman shrine. Inside the light, airy church, called "the most perfectly proportioned interior in the world" by one admirer, two sights warrant investigation: Henry Moore's 1987 central marble altar, which sits beneath the dome ("like a lump of Camembert," say critics), and, well, a telephone—an eloquent tribute to that savior of souls Rector Chad Varah, who in 1953 founded the Samaritans, givers of phone aid to the suicidal, here.

Open: Weekdays 10-4
Tube: Bank, Cannon St.

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