The history of St Bartholomew's is a tale of miraculous survival and continual renewal. It came out unscathed from the Great Fire of 1666 and the bombs dropped in Zeppelin raids in World War I and ...

With the king’s help, his jester Rahere built the original Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great, where he was later entombed, and the hospital thrived until Henry VIII came along 400 odd ...

This is an edited extract from 900 Years of St Bartholomew the Great: The history, art and architecture of London’s oldest parish church, edited by Charlotte Gauthier, published by Paul Holberton at ...

The airy dining room’s massive windows look out onto the cloisters of London’s oldest surviving church, the medieval St Bartholomew-the-Great, as well the city’s oldest residential building ...