London - St Clement Danes Church

Designed by Wren and built in 1681, St Clement Danes Church was gutted by bombing during the last war, only the tower by James Gibb (1719) remaining unscathed. It was restored in the original style in 1958. There is a memorial to Samuel Johnson to the east of the church. The church may derive its name from the fact that there was a Danish settlement on the site before the Norman Conquest. St Clement Danes is the official church of the Royal Air Force. It contains the Book of Remembrance bearing the names of more than 125,000 members of the RAF who lost their lives in the Second World War. The present volume - No 10 - contains the names of any current members who die whilst serving. Let into the floor of the church are more than 800 crests