St Sepulchre without Newgate

St. Sepulchre is one of the biggest City churches: it is located outside the old City walls, and therefore the parish had more room to build. The church is first recorded in 1137, was rebuilt in the mid 15^th century, and then gutted in the Great Fire. The parish was too impatient for Wren to start rebuilding work, so it hired Wren’s master mason Joshua Marshall and rebuilt the church itself between 1667 – 1671. There was further rebuilding in the 19^th and 20^th centuries: some work was completed in 1932, not long before the church was damaged in the Blitz.
St. Sepulchre is known as the Musician’s Church, and also has historical associations with Newgate Prison, which formerly stood across the street (on the present site of Old Bailey). I gave St. Sepulchre three stars only because I haven’t been able to visit the interior yet.