Great Fire of Warwick
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The Great Fire of Warwick was a major conflagration that swept through the town of Warwick, England, beginning at 2:00 p.m. on September 5, 1694 and lasting for six hours.
[edit] Damage
The Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick was severely damaged by the fire. Progress of the fire along Jury Street was halted by the 0.5 metre thick stone walls of the building that as of 2006 is the Lord Leycester Hotel.
[edit] Further reading
- The Great Fire of Warwick.
- Michael Farr (1992). The Great fire of Warwick: 1694: the records of the commissioners appointed under an act of Parliament for rebuilding the town of Warwick. Hertford: Dugdale Society. ISBN 0-85220-069-2.
- Peter Borsay. "A County Town in Transition: The Great Fire of Warwick, 1694". Proceedings of the British Academy 108: 151–170.
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