London’s historical churches
Just behind Cheapside, one of London’s most historic streets, is a tiny little, overlooked pocket park. As is often the case with the City, even the smallest plots of ground have many stories to tell. It was once the site of a medieval church called St Peter, Westcheap and today contains a famous tree. Cheapside […]
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Down Ely Place in Holborn, tucked between a terrace of Georgian townhouses, you will find one of London’s great medieval treasures: St Etheldreda’s. You can see its location here: It is often said to be London’s oldest Catholic church. As is often the case, it depends on how you define ‘oldest’. A more accurate description
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I was recently lucky enough to be invited to have a look inside St James’s Palace. It is the royal palace with, traditionally, the least public access. That will however soon be changing, more on that below. The palace has been at the heart of Royal history for nearly five hundred years and naturally has
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St Mary-le-Strand for many years was literally stranded, on a traffic island, in the middle of the road. It was in fact nicknamed ‘St Mary-in-the-Way’. Due to the recent pedestrianisation project of this part of the Strand, the church has been freed from its vehicular prison and so now, I thought, is a perfect time
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The City of London’s churches are always packed with history and fascinating stories. Visiting them is often like delving into an attic and discovering little treasures and memories. St Sepulchre-without-Newgate is a great example of this. It is likely there has been a church on this site, in the North-West corner of the City, just
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