{"id":929,"date":"2025-09-25T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2025-10-02T16:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:17:12","slug":"medieval-church-suspended-14-metres-above-london-skyscraper-construction-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/medieval-church-suspended-14-metres-above-london-skyscraper-construction-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval church suspended 14 metres above London skyscraper construction site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"852\" height=\"852\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-homepage_article_featured size-homepage_article_featured lazyload\" alt=\"Excavation for 50 Fenchurch Street around medieval London church tower\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sq-church-tower-london-50-fenchurch-street-construction_dezeen_2364_col_0-852x852-1.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>A 700-year-old church tower has been suspended above a construction site during excavation works for the upcoming 50 Fenchurch Street <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/skyscrapers\/\">skyscraper<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/london\/\">London<\/a>, designed by architecture studio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/eric-parry-architects\/\">Eric Parry Architects<\/a>.<span id=\"more-2250529\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Carried out by construction company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.multiplex.global\/uk\/\">Multiplex<\/a>, over 125,000 tonnes of earth were removed from the ground around the Grade I-listed Tower of All Hallows Staining.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2250632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2250632\" style=\"width: 1773px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2250632 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Excavation for 50 Fenchurch Street around medieval London church tower\" width=\"1773\" height=\"2364\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/church-tower-london-50-fenchurch-street-construction_dezeen_2364_col_9-scaled-1.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2250632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stone church tower was propped on steel columns during the construction of 50 Fenchurch Street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Four steel columns prop the stone church up 14 metres above the excavation site, which celebrated a &#8220;bottoming out&#8221; ceremony earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Tubular structures support the surrounding walls of the dug-out site, which is located in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/city-of-london\/\">City of London<\/a> down the road from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/rafael-vinoly-architects\/\">Rafael Vi\u00f1oly<\/a>&#8216;s 20 Fenchurch Street skyscraper \u2013 nicknamed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/walkie-talkie\/\">Walkie Talkie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2250622\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2250622\" style=\"width: 2364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2250622 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Excavation for 50 Fenchurch Street around medieval London church tower\" width=\"2364\" height=\"1773\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/church-tower-london-50-fenchurch-street-construction_dezeen_2364_col_0.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2250622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over 125,000 tonnes of earth were removed in the excavation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the excavation works, the medieval church&#8217;s Grade II-listed crypt was removed and disassembled. It will be reinstated during the construction of the subterranean levels of the 50 Fenchurch Street <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/office-architecture\/\">office<\/a> tower.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the development of the skyscraper, which is expected to be completed in 2028, the stone church tower will be made accessible to the public and form the centre piece of an outdoor space.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related-in-article-wrapper\" id=\"recommended-item-single-story\">\n<article class=\"related-in-article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2024\/02\/02\/one-undershaft-eric-parry-uk-tallest-building\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Can this image be in the exclude lightbox list? --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"191\" height=\"191\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"excludeLightbox wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"One Undershaft by Eric Parry Architects redesigned to be UK&#039;s tallest building\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/one-undershaft-eric-parry-uk-tallest-building_dezeen_2364_sq_3-191x191-1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-in-article-text\">\n<h1>Read:<\/h1>\n<h2>Eric Parry Architects&#8217; One Undershaft skyscraper redesigned to be UK&#8217;s joint-tallest building<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Designed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericparryarchitects.co.uk\/\">Eric Parry Architects<\/a> with engineering firm\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/arup\/\">Arup<\/a>, 50 Fenchurch Street will rise 36 storeys tall and feature a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/green-walls\/\">green wall<\/a> on its facade.<\/p>\n<p>Other buildings designed by Eric Parry Architects include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2023\/08\/23\/eric-parry-wilmar-hq-garden-terraces-singapore\/\">an office building in Singapore<\/a> with staggered terraces and plans for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2024\/02\/02\/one-undershaft-eric-parry-uk-tallest-building\/\">the One Undershaft skyscraper<\/a> in the City of London, which is set to be the UK&#8217;s joint-tallest building.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2250963\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2250963\" style=\"width: 2364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2250963 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"50 Fenchurch Street\" width=\"2364\" height=\"1361\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/50-fenchurch-street-render_dezeen_2364_col_0.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2250963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The church tower will form the centrepiece of a public outdoor space. Render by Binyan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Elsewhere in the City of London, Fletcher Priest Architects used a materials passport system to document the components of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2025\/07\/16\/edenica-fletcher-priest-architects-materials-passport-london-office\/\">Edenica office building<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2025\/02\/26\/holloway-li-london-hotel-beaux-arts-bank\/\">Holloway Li transformed a beaux-arts bank into a hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The photography is by Amy Peacock unless stated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2025\/09\/25\/church-tower-london-50-fenchurch-street-construction\/\">Medieval church suspended 14 metres above London skyscraper construction site<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\">Dezeen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 700-year-old church tower has been suspended above a construction site during excavation works for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}