The Pictorial Story of St. Clement Danes Church of the Royal Airforce

The official illustrated Pitkin guidebook to St. Clement Danes, the Central Church of the Royal Air Force in London. Rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren between 1680 and 1682 with a steeple added by James Gibbs in 1719, the church was gutted by fire in the Blitz on 10 May 1941, standing as a ruin until an RAF fundraising appeal saw it rebuilt and reconsecrated in 1958 before Queen Elizabeth II. It now holds RAF memorials including a Welsh slate floor inlaid with the badges of over 800 RAF commands, groups, stations and squadrons, statues of Air Chief Marshals Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris and Lord Dowding, and the ashes of figures including Marshal of the RAF Lord Tedder.