page_title: All-Hallows-the-Less
section_title: Destruction
hierarchical_section_title: All-Hallows-the-Less / Destruction
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph taken in the mid 60s of the remaining steps and commemorative plaque to All-Hallows-the-Less church.
context_page_description: All-Hallows-the-Less was a church in the City of London. Of medieval origin, it was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and not rebuilt.
context_section_description: The church was destroyed, along with most of the churches in the City, by the Great Fire of 1666.  In 1670 Parliament passed a Rebuilding Act and a committee was set up under the stewardship of Sir Christopher Wren to decide which churches would be rebuilt. All-Hallows-the-Less was not amongst those chosen; instead the parish was united with that of  All-Hallows-the-Great, and the site of the church retained as a burial ground.
  All-Hallows-the-Great itself was demolished in 1894 and the united parishes were in turn joined  with that of St Michael Paternoster Royal under the  Union of Benefices Act 1860. In 1896 many bodies were disinterred from the churchyard and reburied at Brookwood Cemetery. The last physical evidence of the existence of All-Hallows-the-Less, an old watch house, was destroyed during the Second World War.
  The church is the setting for the London Institute in Cassandra Clare's young adult book series, The Infernal Devices.
caption: Photograph taken in the mid 60s of the remaining steps and commemorative plaque to All-Hallows-the-Less church.
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