Samuel Pepys - EC1
Diarist and Naval Administrator
Born 23rd February 1633
Died 26th May 1703
Inscription reads:
St James's Church
A Georgian church on a medieval site.
St Mary's nunnery church was built here in the 12th century.
Henry VIII closed the nunnery in 1539, but the church continued as Clerkenwell's pariish church,
Diarist Samuel Pepys came here to look at the local beauties.
It was rebuilt in 1792 to the designs of James Carr a local architect and has a fine organ by George England Pike.
