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	St Anne and St Agnes Gresham Street EC2V 7BX London (City of London) United Kingdom
Denomination:	Anglican
Geogr. Coordinates:	51.51649° N, 0.09627° W
Reference year:	1687
Architectural style:	Baroque
Building type:	Single-nave church
Description:	Square Baroque church in the form of a Greek cross
Name derivation:	From St Agnes and St Anne, the mother of Mary

History:

1137:	First recorded as St Agnes, from 1460 both names are used
Sep 1666:	Destroyed during the Great Fire of London
1687:	New building completed by Christopher Wren after a 10-year construction period
1940:	Severe bomb damage in World War II
2013:	Using as a study centre for music (“Gresham Centre”, since 2019 “VOCES8 Centre”)

Important persons:

Architect:	Wren, Christopher (1632–1723, British astronomer and architect)
Patron:	Anne (Mother of Mary) Agnes (d. 258/59 or 304 in Rome, martyr)

Sources

Bradley, Simon, Nikolaus Pevsner: London: The City Churches, Yale University Press, New Haven/London 2002, pp. 60–61

Gresham Centre: The Gresham Centre at St Anne & St Agnes Church, London, http://www.greshamcentre.com, retrieved 29/04/2017

Tucker, Tony: City of London Churches, Guidelines Books, Stoke-on-Trent 2013, pp. 26–27

VOCES8 Foundation: Our home, St Anne and St Agnes Church, https://voces8.foundation/the-voces8-centre-at-st-anne-st-agnes-church, retrieved 11/02/2020