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Did you know...

St Andrew Undershaft Church, shadowed by the "The Gherkin"

…that St Pancras Old Church stands on what is believed to be one of the oldest sites of Christian worship in England?

…that there are two London churches that claim to be the "St Clements" of the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons:- St Clement Danes and St Clement Eastcheap?

…that the name of St Andrew Undershaft (depicted right, in the shadow of Norman Foster's Swiss Re Building) refers to the shaft of the maypole that was traditionally set up each year opposite the church?

…that St. John's, Smith Square is nicknamed "Queen Anne’s Footstool" because its four corner towers give it the appearance of an upturned footstool?