St George’s Bloomsbury: the triumph of “the Devil’s Architect”
Find your way to the High Holborn entrance to the roof terrace of the new ‘Post Building’ (the former Royal Mail West Central District Office), […]
churches
St Mary’s Isn’t in the Way
One of the ways in which the city has been vastly improved over the past few years has been the claiming back of roadways into […]
The Crypt Chapel, St Olave’s Hart Street
Another City church, another ancient crypt… St Olave’s Hart Street is one of the few churches to survive the Great Fire of 1666 (it was […]
The American Memorial Chapel, St Paul’s
If you’ve seen Herbert Mason’s photo ‘St Paul’s Survives’ – the dome of the cathedral still standing proud as the smoke of the Blitz rises […]
The crypt museum in All Hallows by the Tower
Fight your way through the crowds surrounding the Tower of London and you might just make it through to one of London’s oldest churches. All […]
The Church of St Mary Aldermanbury – London and Missouri
At the corner of Love Lane and Aldermanbury, round the back of the old City of London Police HQ, is a ‘pocket park’ that was […]
Westminster Abbey’s Hidden Highlights Tour
I am a jaded old cynic, a London Blue Badge Guide who has taken people round Westminster Abbey what, 200? 300 times? Pre-covid, some weeks […]
“Exquisite Pain” in St Bart’s
The church of St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield is one of the jewels of London. A breathtakingly beautiful architectural gem that has occupied its […]
The Chapel of St John the Evangelist
One of the loveliest and most peaceful spaces in London is literally in the centre of one of the busiest. The Tower of London gets […]