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that was traditionally set up each year opposite the church. The custom continued each spring until 1517, when student riots put an end to it, but the maypole itself survived until 1547 when it was seized by a mob and destroyed as a "pagan idol". According to
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The tower holds a peal of six bells in the key of G, with the tenor being cast in 1597 by Robert Mot. These are now hung dead (they can only be rung stationary) inside the tower.
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renovation. Formerly, St Andrew Undershaft had one of London's few surviving large stained-glass windows, installed in the 17th century, but this was destroyed in the
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The present building was constructed in 1532 but a church has existed on the site since the 12th century. Today, St Andrew Undershaft is administered from the nearby
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with its entrance located at the base of its off-centre tower. The interior is divided into six bays, with many of the original fittings that survived the
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The organ is of such historic significance that it has been awarded a Grade I historic organ certificate by the
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in 1810–11 and 1826. Further work was carried out by William Hill, Speechly and J. W. Walker & Sons, and
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Frederick George Blomfield, rector of St Andrew Undershaft (1853–1879), son of
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the father of church bellringing was buried in St Andrew Undershaft.
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ward, and is a rare example of a City church that survived both the
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St Andrew Undershaft is now administered from the nearby church of
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A Survey of London written in the year 1598, by John Stow
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The first church on the site, which today is bordered by
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The church's curious name derives from the shaft of the
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St. Andrew's Undershaft

EC3
Denomination
Church of England
Churchmanship
Conservative Evangelical
listed building
Style
Perpendicular style
Diocese
London
Church of England
church
City of London
St Mary Axe
Aldgate
Great Fire of London
the Blitz
St Helen's Bishopsgate

St Mary Axe
Leadenhall Street
medieval times
Perpendicular style
Victorian
Baltic Exchange bombing

maypole
John Stow

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