London Stone

2007

London Stone

2006

Location Of London Stone

1969

111 Cannon Street newly built on the site of St Swithin’s Church

Location of London Stone

The ruins of St Swithin’s Church, Cannon Street in 1946

London Stone

Ralph Merriman (1965) describes this photograph thus;
‘London Stone’, now preserved in a niche in the south wall of the Bank of China, Cannon Street, photographed in 1961 after it had heen removed from a similar position in the wall of St. Swithin’s Church on the same site.
John Clark reports that it;
was temporarily placed in the care of Guildhall Museum … During this period a sample of the stone was taken.  It was identified as Lincolnshire Limestone both by F G Dimes and later by F W Anderson of the Institute of Geological Studies - the latter adding ‘your specimen, making allowances for its weathered condition, resembles Clipsham Stone more clearly than it resembles the others’ (Merrifield 1965, 123; and correspondence in Museum of London, Guildhall Museum file T10).  However, re-examination of the same sample, now in the Natural History Museum (Earth Sciences), by Kevin Hayward (pers comm) has indicated that rather than Lincolnshire it may be Bath Stone. (Clark 2007 p177)

Location of London Stone

1952

Ordnance Survey

London Stone in 1937, with the protective grille and the plaque above it in Latin and English installed at the instigation of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society in 1869 (Photo: Hulton Archive Getty Images)

Jack Cade At London Stone, John Clark, LAMAS 2007

Location of London Stone

1916-1920

Ordnance Survey

Location of London Stone

1896

Ordnance Survey

London Stone

1886

London Stone behind a grille in Cannon Street
Photo: Dixon, Henry (1820-1892)

London Metropolitan Archives

London Stone

1881

Jack Cade seated on London Stone. Illustration by Sir John Gilbert for Henry VI Part 2 in Howard Staunton (ed) The Works of William Shakespeare vol 8, London: Routledge (1881).

Jack Cade At London Stone, John Clark, LAMAS 2007

Location of london Stone

1875

Ordnance Survey

London Stone, Cannon Street.

c. 1830
Artist: anon.
Engraver: Allen, James B. (1803-1876)

London Metropolitan Archives

London Stone

c. 1820

View of London Stone, Cannon Street with figure. Also showing the door of St Swithin London Stone.
Artist: anon.

London Metropolitan Archives

Location of London Stone

1799-1819