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TEMPLE CHURCH
FLEET STREET
Temple.
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In the nineteenth century, all the major national and provincial dailies had their offices and
printing presses
in and around Fleet Street. Computer technology rendered the presses here
obsolete in the 1980s, however, and within a decade or so all the newspaper headquarters
had gone, leaving just a couple of landmarks to testify to five hundred years of printing his-
tory. The most remarkable is the city's first glass curtain-wall construction, the former
Daily
Express
building at no. 127, with its sleek black Vitrolite facade.
ST DUNSTAN-IN-THE-WEST
186a Fleet St Temple.
www.stdunstaninthewest.org
.Mon-Fri 9.30am-5pm.Free.
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With its distinctive neo-Gothic tower and lantern from the 1830s, St Dunstan dominates the
top of Fleet Street. To the side is a clock temple from 1671, erected in thanks for escaping
the Great Fire which stopped just short of the church and featuring the legendary giants Gog
and Magog. The statues of Elizabeth I and King Lud and his sons used to adorn the City
gateway that once stood on Ludgate Hill.
