Wren 300 Playing Cards
Chloe created Wren 300 Playing Cards using her papercut designs of the churches and the Monument and Temple Bar, also built by the office of Sir Christopher Wren in the City of London, as the Jokers in the pack. You can buy the latest edition of her playing cards here. Below is a map Chloe created of all the churches featured in her pack of cards, in approximately the same location as they were originally built in the City of London by the office of Christopher Wren.
The playing cards are ordered by the date of the Saint of the churches’ Feast Day. They are poker cards ranking King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2 and Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs.
33 of the churches still exist; (1) St Mary Abchurch, (3) St Mary Aldermary, (5) St Mary-At-Hill, (6) St Mary-le-Bow, (10) St Benet Paul's Wharf, (12) St Bride’s, (13) St Vedast-alias-Foster, (14) St Magnus the Martyr, (18) St Peter-upon-Cornhill, (19) St Paul’s Cathedral, (24) St Margaret Lothbury, (25) St Margaret Pattens, (28) St James Garlickhythe, (29) St Anne and St Agnes, (31) St Lawrence Jewry, (36) St Michael’s Cornhill, (38) St Michael Paternoster Royal, (45) St Martin Ludgate, (46) St Edmund the King and Martyr, (47) St Clement Eastcheap, (48) St Andrew by the Wardrobe, (49) St Andrew Holborn, (50) St Nicholas Cole Abbey, (52) St Stephen Walbrook.
Two of the churches have been taken down and rebuilt outside of the City of London; (2) St Mary Aldermanbury, is now in Missouri in America and (43) All Hallows Lombard Street is now in Twickenham.
There is one church where the interior was created by the office of Christopher Wren; (8) Temple Church.
The only two secular buildings in the City of London created by the office of Christopher Wren are the Jokers in the pack; Temple Bar (Joker) and The Monument (Joker).
Nineteen of the churches no longer exist; (9) St Benet Gracechurch, (11) St Antholin, Budge Row, (15) St George Botolph Lane, (20) St Benet Fink, (21) St Mildred, Bread Street, (22) St Mildred, Poultry, (23) St Swithun, London Stone, (26) St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street, (27) St Christopher le Stocks,(32) St Bartholomew-by the-Exchange, (34) St Matthew, Friday Street, (35) St Michael Bassishaw, (37) St Michael, Crooked Lane, (39) St Michael Queenhithe, (40) St Michael Wood Street, (41) St Dionis Backchurch, (42) All Hallows, Bread Street, (44) All-Hallows-the-Great, (51) St Stephen Coleman Street,
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