The Church of St. Dunstan in the West, in fleet-street, in sharp contrast to the usual Anglican churches: a rectangular building inside has the shape of an octagon.

It is considered that the first Church on this place was built at the turn of X-XI centuries. Perhaps to its base had a hand in the Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury, who died in 988. This is one of the most revered saints of Anglo-Saxon Britain was an outstanding state and Church worker, and a musician, artist, researcher.

In written documents, the Church is first mentioned in 1185. In 1666, she was saved from the Great fire of London: the Dean of the Westminster College of the night was awakened by forty scholars, who, passing along the chain of buckets with water, stood the temple. In the early nineteenth century the old Church by the decision of Parliament was demolished – fleet street needed to be expanded. In 1831, laid the first stone of the present building by John Shaw senior. In the project the architect has laid the idea of an octagonal tower in the Gothic style, already tried them before in the Church of St. Helena in York. The show did not live, however, until the completion of his masterpiece, the construction was finished by his son. The Church survived the Second world war, although the bombs and damaging the delicate lantern tower.

In the design of the Church used a lot of details preserved from the old Church. On the facade – chime with two human figures. It is believed that this biblical Gog and Magog. They put here in 1671 to commemorate the salvation of the Church by fire and since then every quarter of an hour beating a small bell. Figures each year participate in the Grand parade, the Lord mayor of city. Under the chiming clock on the cast iron bracket hanging very beautiful watch – the first London street clock with the minute hand.

In a niche on the wall of the Church is a statue of Queen Elizabeth I related to 1586, is the only surviving statue of the Queen, painted in her lifetime. For centuries it was at the gate of Ludgate in medieval London wall. Near – bust newspaper magnate, co-founder of the "daily Mail" and "mirror" Lord Northcliffe, as well as a memorial plaque, dedicated to the famous British journalist and editor James Louis Garvin. The attention of the Church to journalists to explain: fleet street has long been considered a citadel of the British press.

Inside the Church is an octagonal nave is surrounded by a deep arches. One of them is an altar with Flemish wood carvings of the eighteenth century. On the walls of the Church – a huge number of commemorative plaques: preached here in 1624-31 the great poet and priest John Donne, lectured the first translator of the Bible into English by William Tyndale, prayed an outstanding diarist Samuel Pepys. Buried here in 1632, the founder of Maryland (USA) Lord Baltimore.

Very nice stained glass Windows of the Church. Here St. Dunstan stands next to a roaring fiery furnace, he ticks, he's ready to restrain the devil. But John of England signs the Magna Carta.