Monument to the Great Fire of London

The tall, fluted Doric column you are approaching stands exactly two hundred and two feet tall. This measurement is precise, as it equals the exact distance from the base of the column to the site of the bakery on Pudding Lane where the Great Fire of London first began in sixteen sixty-six. Built of Portland stone between sixteen seventy-one and sixteen seventy-seven, the structure sits on the site of Saint Margaret New Fish Street, which was the very first church destroyed during the four-day inferno.