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Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of Etchings
The Monument, built in commemoration of the Great Fire, by Wren, was erected in 1671-77 on Fish Street Hill, which was then the direct thoroughfare to London Bridge. Its height is said to represent its distance from the house in Pudding Lane in which the fire broke out. A little further down Fish Street Hill is the Church of S. Magnus the Martyr, rebuilt by Wren after the old one was burnt down. It stood almost at the foot of old London Bridge, which was 60 yards lower down the river than the present one.
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