page_title: All-Hallows-the-Great
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: All-Hallows-the-Great / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: The interior of All Hallows the Great with the rood screen and the pulpit which were later moved to St Margaret Lothbury
context_page_description: All-Hallows-the-Great was a church in the City of London, located on what is now Upper Thames Street, first mentioned in 1235. Destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666, the church was rebuilt by the office of Sir Christopher Wren. All-Hallows-the-Great was demolished in 1894 when many bodies were disinterred from the churchyard and reburied at Brookwood Cemetery.
context_section_description: The church was a slightly irregular rectangle with exposed north and west frontages.  The exterior was plain and the number of visits made by Robert Hooke to the site suggest that it was his design.  The tower survived the Fire and long before work on the church began, molten bell metal was salvaged from the church's ruins and recast into a new bell.  This was hung in the old tower in 1671.  The effects of the Fire belatedly became evident in its structure, as it was taken down and rebuilt in 1684.  It was plain, with round headed windows and a balustrade.
  The request sent by the Church Commissioners to Wren that "the Tower of All Hallows-the-Great be forthwith finished with a cupola or spire as you shall best approve of, by reason it stands conspicuous to the Thames" was never acted upon.
  The church was rich in furnishings, many of which survive in other churches.  It was one of two Wren churches to have a rood screen, commissioned by the parish after seeing that erected for St Peter upon Cornhill (the tradition that it was a gift from a member of the German merchant community is without foundation).  Installed in the church at the time it was completed, it can now be seen in St Margaret Lothbury.
  At its completion, it was the only Wren church to have contemporary non-memorial statues. The life size images of Moses and Aaron flanking the Decalogue on the reredos are now in St Michael Paternoster Royal, which also received the lectern (now stolen) and the chandelier.  The former pulpit of All-Hallows-the-Great is now in St. Paul's Hammersmith.
caption: The carved rood screen and the sounding board which were later moved to St Margaret Lothbury.
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