"A 700-year-old building suspended on stilts is not your typical City of London sight. However, that's what is currently on show in the Square Mile this week, as a very, very old church near Fenchurch Street station sits suspended 45 feet (14 metres) above the ground. The building in question is the tower of All Hallows Staining Church, and it's in its current predicament thanks to a massive development at 50 Fenchurch Street."
"The project has just 'bottomed out', meaning a milestone has been reached in excavating the site and undertaking foundation works. A whopping 125,000 tonnes of earth and ground material was removed from the site. 50 Fenchurch Street's bottoming-out ceremony was on Tuesday (September 23), and it's left the 14th-century tower standing starkly solitary. While visitors may not be able to get up close and personal with the curious sight, the tower's tubular steel stilts are visible to passersby."
A 14th-century tower of All Hallows Staining Church stands suspended about 14 metres above ground on tubular steel stilts while adjacent construction proceeds. The 50 Fenchurch Street development has 'bottomed out' after removal of 125,000 tonnes of earth and ground material and a bottoming-out ceremony on September 23. The development, designed by Eric Parry Architects, will become a 36-storey, 650,000-square-foot office tower. The church tower will be preserved and positioned at the centre of a new public green space, with its crypt reassembled. Basement construction will begin and the project is due for completion in 2028.
Read at Time Out London
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