St George Botolph Lane site of the church is now occupied by Richard Seifert’s Farryner House of 1973. The churchyard gates survive in Lovat Lane, and a parish boundary mark can still be found on Fish Street Hill. The church's sword rests, plate, royal arms, ironwork, organ and organ case all went to St Mary-at-Hill. The pulpit is now in St George's church in Southall. St George Botolph Lane St George Botolph Lane was a church off Eastcheap, in the ward of Billingsgate in the City of London. The rear of the church overlooked Pudding Lane, where the fire of London started. It was
Great fire of Meireki Meireki fire less than three centuries earlier, saw roughly 100,000 deaths, and the destruction of the majority of the city. "The Fire Kimono", a 2008 mystery novel by Laura Joh Rowland, was inspired by the event. Great fire of Meireki The , also known as the Furisode Fire, destroyed 60–70% of the Japanese capital city of Edo (now Tokyo) on March 2, 1657, the third year of the Meireki Imperial era. The fire lasted for three days, and is estimated to have claimed over 100,000 lives. The fire was said to have been started accidentally by a priest who was