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	St Peter upon Cornhill Cornhill EC3V 3PD London (City of London) United Kingdom
Denomination:	Anglican
Congregation:	St. Peter, Cornhill (Diocese of London, Archdeaconry of London, The City)
Geogr. Coordinates:	51.51326° N, 0.08463° W
Reference year:	1684
Architectural style:	Baroque
Building type:	Hall Church
Description:	Three-aisled baroque hall church with barrel vault; by tradition the oldes church in London (founded 179 by the British king Lucius)
Name derivation:	From St Peter and the corn hill (one of the hills of the Roman colony of Londinium, corn market since Antiquity)


Building material	Red roof tiles (like its medieval predecessor building)

History:

1127:	First record of a predecessor church
Sep 1666:	Destroyed during the Great Fire of London (tower base and weather vane remaining to this day)
1684:	Rebuilding by Christopher Wren completed (after a seven-year construction period)
About 1880:	Restoration
1990:	Repeated restoration, today used as a centre of studies

Important persons:

Architect:	Wren, Christopher (1632–1723, British astronomer and architect)
Patron:	Peter (1–64 (?), apostle and martyr)

Dimensions:

Tower Height [m]:

42

Sources

Bradley, Simon, Nikolaus Pevsner: London: The City Churches, Yale University Press, New Haven/London 2002, pp. 122–124

Millar, Stephen: London’s City Churches, Metro Publications, London 2013, pp. 156–159

Tucker, Tony: City of London Churches, Guidelines Books, Stoke-on-Trent 2013, pp. 86–87

Wikipedia: St Peter upon Cornhill, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter_upon_Cornhill, retrieved 22/05/2017