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Monument, the  The Monument, in the City of London, England. The Monument's height of 67 m/220 ft supposedly commemorates the distance from its base to the bakery in Pudding Lane where the fire started. | Stone column commemorating the Fire of London in 1666, situated near the north approach to London Bridge and the site of the house in Pudding Lane where the conflagration began. It was designed by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke, and erected 1671–77. |
| The Monument is a gigantic fluted Doric column, 67 m/220 ft high. Three sides of the base are covered with allegorical reliefs and appropriate inscriptions. Steps lead to the top, which is surmounted by a finial (ornament crowning a spire, pinnacle, or column) simulating a ball of fire. |
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