A WALK TO APPRECIATE SOME CHURCHES IN THE CITY OF LONDON
St. Dunstan-in-the-West
St Martin within Ludgate
St. Dunstan-in-the-West
St. Dunstan-in-the-West has a long history. Visitors are often struck by how St. Dunstan’s differs in appearance and style to other Anglican churches. The church looks traditionally Neo-Gothic on the outside, yet is octagonal inside.
Read about its community support during the Great Plague of 1665...
St Bride's church
St Martin within Ludgate
St. Dunstan-in-the-West
St Bride’s Church is a great example of a Wren church and a fascinating historic site in London. The journalist's church has some great stories to tell and a wonderful crypt to explore.
If you are lucky enough to experience its choir, you will find it to be a real treat...
St Martin within Ludgate
St Martin within Ludgate
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
The church of St Martin within Ludgate has some fascinating aspects to its interior.
Notable woodwork includes the original reredos, communion table, communion rails and pulpit, plus an unusual chair...
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
There has been a worshipping community at Holy Sepulchre since at least 1137 when a charter records that Rahere (the founder of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital) appointed ‘Hagno the Clerk’ as priest of Holy Sepulchre...
St Bartholomew
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
St Paul's Cathedral
London's oldest parish church, dating back to 1123. As you would expect, there is a large amount of history to this place.
It has also featured in some major films and TV dramas...
St Paul's Cathedral
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
St Paul's Cathedral
The first cathedral established in 604 CE.
Old St Paul's was larger than the current one.
The current cathedral designed by Sir Christopher Wren was built between 1675 and 1711 after the previous (larger) cathedral was burnt down in the Great Fire of 1666...
St Vedast-alias-Foster
St Vedast-alias-Foster
St Vedast-alias-Foster
This church has been altered, enlarged and restored many times and probably rebuilt at least twice, the last time by Sir Christopher Wren, after the Great Fire of London in 1666. ..
St Lawrence Jewry
St Vedast-alias-Foster
St Vedast-alias-Foster
The first church on this site was built on the western edge of what was at the time a Jewish trading area. There was a significant Jewish community in the area until the time of being expelled expelled by Edward I in 1290...
St Mary-le-Bow
St Vedast-alias-Foster
St Stephen Walbrook
The medieval church of St Mary-le-Bow survived three collapses before it was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. Rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren, it was destroyed again in 1941, rebuilt and re-consecrated in 1964...
St Stephen Walbrook
St Stephen Walbrook
St Stephen Walbrook
The Walbrook is one of London's lost rivers, now underground. Much history surrounds this local area dating back to Roman times and before. This church was Wren's own parish church, and it is one of my favourites...
St Edmund
St Stephen Walbrook
St Helen's
The position of St Mary Woolnoth and St Edmund the King churches in Lombard Street provided a platform for values, practices that are both above markets but also very much inherent to markets that brings fairness and flourishing to people...
St Helen's
St Stephen Walbrook
St Helen's
In 1210 the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's give permission for a certain William to establish a nunnery in the grounds of the priory church of St Helen of the Benedictine Order...
St Ethelberga's
St Botolph without Bishopsgate
St Botolph without Bishopsgate
Destroyed by an IRA bomb in 1993, resurrected as a centre for reconciliation and peace in 2002, St Ethelburga's is a symbol of hope from the ashes...
St Botolph without Bishopsgate
St Botolph without Bishopsgate
St Botolph without Bishopsgate
The original Saxon church, the foundations of which were discovered when the present church was erected, is first mentioned as “Sancti Botolfi Extra Bishopesgate” in 1212. There's a great extract by Daniel Defoe about the church during the Great Plague of 1665...
St Margaret Pattens
St Botolph without Bishopsgate
St Dunstan in the East
St Margaret Patterns is a City Guild Church that was first recorded in 1067, at which time the church was probably built from wood.
Pattens are a type of "old overshoe". You can find out more inside the church...
St Dunstan in the East
St Dunstan in the East
St Dunstan in the East
St Dunstan in the East Church Garden is a truly delightful space set within the ruins of a Wren church.
The Church of St Dunstan was originally built around 1100 and is a Grade I listed building...
St Olave's
St Dunstan in the East
St Magnus the Martyr
St Olave Hart Street is one of the few mediaeval churches to survive the Great Fire of London. It is the burial place of Samuel Pepys and his wife Elizabeth. The diaries of Samuel Pepys provide the most vivid first-hand account of the fire of 1666 and subsequent life...
St Magnus the Martyr
St Dunstan in the East
St Magnus the Martyr
St Magnus church is at the head of the old London Bridge on the City side. It was Sir Christopher Wren’s most expensive parish church and the first to be visited by people crossing into the City. There is a marvellous model of Old London Bridge inside...