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	St Edmund the King and Martyr Lombard Street EC3V 9EA London (City of London) United Kingdom
Denomination:	Anglican
Congregation:	St. Edmund-the-King and St. Mary Woolnoth (Diocese of London, Archdeaconry of London, The City)
Geogr. Coordinates:	51.51251° N, 0.08624° W
Reference year:	1674
Architectural style:	Baroque
Building type:	Single-nave church
Description:	Baroque single-nave church oriented towards north, tower over the south portal
Name derivation:	From St Edmund, king of East Anglia

History:

12th cent.:	First record of a predecessor church
Sep 1666:	Destroyed during the Great Fire of London
1674:	Rebuilding by Robert Hooke (under supervision by Christopher Wren, work started in 1670)
1707:	Construction of the tower (probably by Nicholas Hawksmoor)
1917:	Bomb damage during World War I
About 1930:	Restoration in the 1930s
1941:	New bomb damage during World War II
2006:	Used as event location (London Spirituality Centre)

Important persons:

Architect:	Hawksmoor, Nicholas (1661–1736, English architect)
Patron:	Edmund (841–869/870, king of East Anglia, martyr)

Sources

Millar, Stephen: London’s City Churches, Metro Publications, London 2013, pp. 78–80

St Edmund King and Martyr: Web-Site Kirchengemeinde, London, http://www.lcsd.org.uk, retrieved 01/05/2017

Tucker, Tony: City of London Churches, Guidelines Books, Stoke-on-Trent 2013, pp. 46–47