More shots of St. Clement Danes Church from this morning. The cased book is one of several listing all the airmen killed in WW2. Another book includes all killed between 1911 and 1939, and an eleventh book remembers all the American airmen of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces killed whilst stationed in the UK in WW2. The top interior photo features the massive Royal Stuart coat of arms with this inscription in Latin: "Built by Christopher Wren 1682. Destroyed by thunderbolts of air warfare 1941. Restored by the Royal Air Force 1958". Some of the pews are very ornate indeed. By contrast, the exterior appears quite plain. It is located on a traffic island right in the middle of London's Strand. Oh, in case you're wondering, the "bells of St. Clements" in the old nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons" may be a reference to this historic church, but more likely to St. Clement's Eastcheap, also designed by Wren.)
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