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	St Alban Wood Street Wood Street EC2P 2NQ London (City of London) United Kingdom
Denomination:	(remains)
Geogr. Coordinates:	51.51661° N, 0.09408° W
Reference year:	1685
Architectural style:	Gothic
Description:	Square tower in the Gothic Perpendicular style.
Name derivation:	From St Alban and its location in Wood Street.

History:

11th cent.:	First mention of the precursor church (probably Anglo-Saxon)
1634:	Rebuilding
Sep 1666:	Mostly destroyed in the Great Fire of London
1685:	Reconstruction by Christopher Wren in the Gothic Perpendicular style
1878:	Renewal of the pinnacles
1940:	Largely destroyed during World War II
1965:	Demolition of the nave
1985:	Conversion to private property

Important persons:

Architect:	Wren, Christopher (1632–1723, British astronomer and architect)
Patron:	Alban of England (?–304, first martyr in Britain)

Sources

Tucker, Tony: City of London Churches, Guidelines Books, Stoke-on-Trent 2013, pp. 100–101

Wikipedia: Eintrag „St Alban, Wood Street“, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Alban,_Wood_Street, retrieved 17/10/2017