{"id":129543,"date":"2025-09-11T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/129543\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T08:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:52:07","slug":"london-medieval-tower-preserved-during-36-storey-skyscraper-build-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/129543\/","title":{"rendered":"London medieval tower preserved during 36-storey skyscraper build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">In the heart of the City of London, the medieval Tower of All Hallows Staining is now propped up on stilts as work continues beneath it on the 36-storey Fifty Fenchurch development. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">First built in 1320, the tower is all that remains of a church that was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The Grade I listed structure is being preserved and integrated into the project. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">A striking example of how the city&#8217;s ever-evolving skyline makes space for its history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 bJoRPJ\">Video by Gopal Virdee, Wendy Hurrell &amp; David Faye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the heart of the City of London, the medieval Tower of All Hallows Staining is now propped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-129543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}