St Bride's

Church in London, England, on the south side of Fleet Street. The dedication is a corruption of St Bridget, a 6th-century Irish saint. The present structure, one of Christopher Wren's masterpieces, was built in 1670-84, and destroyed except for the steeple (Wren's highest) in the German air raid of 29 December 1940, but has been restored and was reopened in 1957.

The earliest extant reference to a church on this site is dated 1222, and excavations in 1952 revealed the existence of two or possibly three earlier churches, as well as remains of a Roman dwelling.

Samuel Pepys was baptised in the church that was destroyed in the Great Fire. The novelist Samuel Richardson was buried here.