The Historian · Charlotte · London
The Monument to the Great Fire
People climb this for the view. That's fine. But the inscription is the reason. It's the original, mostly anti-Catholic blame-assignment from 1681. It's history's fingerprints on stone.
Wren and Hooke's 1677 column stands exactly 202 feet tall and exactly 202 feet from where the Fire started in Pudding Lane. This is deliberate and poetic.
— Charlotte, The Historian
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