Second World War Gallery
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St Pauls CXP01_01_086
St Paul's Cathedral, St Paul's Churchyard, City of London. A view looking south-west across a bomb damaged landscape towards the Church of St Verdast-alias-Foster with St Paul's Cathedral beyond.
The Church of St Verdast-alias-Foster was rebuilt by Christopher Wren after the Great Fire of London in 1666. In the Second World War it was gutted by fire during the Blitz in 1940-41 and was later rebuilt after the war with work starting in 1953. St Paul's Cathedral survived the bombing raids but other buildings in the area were completely destroyed by high explosives and incendiary bombs
© Historic England Archive
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St Bartholomews Heigham, 1942 AA42_03745
St Bartholomew's Church, St Bartholomew's Close, Heigham, Norwich, Norfolk. St Bartholomew's Church viewed from the south showing bomb damage.
The medieval church of St Bartholomew was destroyed in a German bombing raid on the 27th April 1942. The raid was the first Baedeker Raid on the city of Norwich. The Baedeker raids or Baedeker Blitz was a series of air raids undertaken by the Luftwaffe in a tit for tat exchange initiated by the RAF bombing of Lubeck in March 1942. The name derives from the popular pre-war tourist books known as Baedeker Guides, which listed British sites of cultural or historic interest. Only the church tower now remains
© Historic England Archive
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Manchester Cathedral, 1942 AA42_01741
Manchester Cathedral. The north west corner of the Ely Chapel at St Mary's Cathedral Church, or Manchester Cathedral, showing bomb damage. The cathedral was originally a collegiate parish church, dating between c1422 and 1520, and became a cathedral in 1847. It may contain some earlier material, and was altered in 1814-1815, 1862-1868, 1885-1886 and in 1898. It received bomb damage during 1940 and was rebuilt and restored by Sir Hubert Worthington. The cathedral has a west tower with porch, a six bay aisled nave with north and south porches, an aisled choir with chapels flanking the north and south sides, a presbytery, retrochoir and a Lady Chapel at the east end. Manchester cathedral was the second-most damaged cathedral in Britain during World War II
© Historic England Archive
