Near the rising sun nice Samuel Smith’s pub nice food
Online info was a bit confusing about the dates, but here’s what I found:
> The Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great dates from 1123. Having survived the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, it is the oldest church in the City of London. A half-timbered gatehouse was added in 1595, above a 13th century stone arch. Later hidden behind a Georgian shop front, a WWI zeppelin raid blew the façade open revealing the extraordinary Tudor structure beneath.
So basically the arch is from the 1200s, the gatehouse above was added 430 years ago in 1595, covered in the 1700s and used as a shop, until a ww1 bomb in 1917 damaged the facade. Then it was fully restored in 1932 to its current state.
Fascinating slice of history!
It also survived the fire of london, presumably by protection from the surrounding buildings
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Had many after work pints in the sun at the Butcher’s Hook just up from there.
Oldest building in London according to [youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmg7pASv5i8).
Near the rising sun nice Samuel Smith’s pub nice food
Online info was a bit confusing about the dates, but here’s what I found:
> The Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great dates from 1123. Having survived the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, it is the oldest church in the City of London. A half-timbered gatehouse was added in 1595, above a 13th century stone arch. Later hidden behind a Georgian shop front, a WWI zeppelin raid blew the façade open revealing the extraordinary Tudor structure beneath.
So basically the arch is from the 1200s, the gatehouse above was added 430 years ago in 1595, covered in the 1700s and used as a shop, until a ww1 bomb in 1917 damaged the facade. Then it was fully restored in 1932 to its current state.
Fascinating slice of history!
It also survived the fire of london, presumably by protection from the surrounding buildings