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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. It started from a spark of a torch that was being carried up High Street.

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Damage

Further reading

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.

Further reading

★ The Great Fire of Warwick

★ The Great fire of Warwick: 1694: the records of the commissioners appointed under an act of Parliament for rebuilding the town of Warwick, Michael Farr, , , Hertford: Dugdale Society, 1992, ISBN 0-85220-069-2

★ A County Town in Transition: The Great Fire of Warwick, 1694, Peter Borsay, , , Proceedings of the British Academy,