when was the monument to the great fire of london built
Monument to the Great Fire of London It stands at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill, 202 ft (62 m) tall and 202 ft (62 m) from the spot in Pudding Lane where the Great Fire started on 2 September 1666. Another monument, the Golden Boy of Pye Corner, marks the point near Smithfield where the fire was stopped. Constructed between 1671 and 1677, it was built on the site of St. Margaret's, Fish Street, the first church to be burnt down by the Great Fire.
List of tallest buildings in the United Kingdom The Shard in Southwark, London, is currently the tallest completed building in both the UK and the European Union; it was topped out at a height of 310 metres (1,020Â ft) in March 2012, inaugurated in July 2012 and opened to the public in February 2013.