Set high-up on the building at the corner of Giltspur Street and Cock Lane, the statue of the Golden Boy is supposed to mark the spot where the Great Fire of London (1666) finished, and in memory that the fire was occasioned by the sin of Gluttony, (it was here that the food stalls could be found during fairs).

The ‘Sin of Gluttony’ theory was promoted by a nonconformist preacher who stated that ‘ the calamity could not have been the sin of blasphemy for in that case it would have began at Billingsgate, nor lewdness for then Drury Lane would have been first on fire nor lying for then the flames would have reached the City from Westminster Hall. No, it was occasioned by the sin of gluttony for it began at Pudding Lane and ended at Pye Corner’.