ST CLEMENT DANES


Meaning of ST CLEMENT DANES in English

a church in central London, England, designed by Christopher Wren in 1682 at a place where a group of Danes are thought to have settled in the 9th century. It was partly destroyed by bombs in World War II and was built again as a special church of the Royal Air Force . It is probably the church mentioned in the children’s song Oranges and Lemons , although there is another church called St Clement’s in Eastcheap, London.

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