- Type of Memorial
- Chapel or Church: Freestanding building
- WMR Reference Number
- 53566
- Description
- Church was rebuilt after WW2 in original Baroque style, with the incorporation into it many RAF motifs and memorials. Floor contains 800 RAF squadron and unit badges in Welsh slate. Arms of Air Marshal Lord Trenchard, 'Father of the RAF', hang above the west door, and small arms of air chief marshals from 1918-1977 are at the end of the pews.
Beneath ten of the windows are large books of remembrance listing more than 125,000 names of those killed in the RAF and its predecessors (WMR 53706).
- Inscription
- (Above chancel): AEDIFICAVIT CHR. WREN A.D. MDCLXXXII. DIRUERUNT AERII BELLI FULMINA A.D. MCMXLI. RESTITUIT REGINA CLASSIS AERONAUTICA A.D. MCMLVIII.
(Built by Christopher Wren 1682. Destroyed by enemy air attacks 1941. Rebuilt by the RAF 1958.)
(Tablet on outer east wall): ST CLEMENT DANES/ BUILT BY THE DANISH/ COMMUNITY IN THE NINTH/ CENTURY AND REBUILT BY/ WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR/ REBUILT AGAIN BY/ SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN IN/ 1681 THE STEEPLE ADDED BY/ JAMES GIBBS IN 1719/ GUTTED BY GERMAN INCENDIARY BOMBS LEAVING/ ONLY THE DAMAGED WALLS/ AND STEEPLE 10 MAY 1941/ ADOPTED IN 1956 BY THE ROYAL AIR FORCE/ RESTORED BY ANTONY LLOYD/ AND RECONSECRATED IN THE / PRESENCE OF HER MAJESTY/ QUEEN ELIZABETH II/ 19 OCTOBER 1958/ AS THE CENTRAL CHURCH/ OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE