Churches - Archive Articles

You can climb up Hackney’s medieval clock tower

In the heart of Hackney is a medieval clock tower, and occasionally it's open to the public to climb up and stand on the roof for some pretty decent views across East London.

Inside Kilburn’s famous Tin Tabernacle

On a Kilburn side street is a large corrugated iron church-like shed that's looking rather sorry for itself - this is the famous Kilburn Tin Tabernacle.

Going inside the Annunciation Marble Arch

Tucked away on a side street near Marble Arch is a solidly built brick church from the outside, that's a richly decorated church on the inside -- the Annunciation Marble Arch.

Sir Richard Burton’s curious “tent tomb”

In southwest London is a most unusual mausoleum to an unusual man (and his wife), that's in the shape of a Bedouin tent. Oh, and it has a ladder to climb up and peer inside it.

See the 700-years old murals of St Nicholas Church, Charlwood

A church near Gatwick Airport contains a remarkable survivor inside -- a set of historically significant series of murals that date to around 1300-1350.

An unexpected entrance for St Mary Abbots church

This large but at a glance seemingly ordinary church in Kensington has a wonderful feature -- a cloister like covered walkway to the entrance.

London Churches: St Margaret’s Lothbury

A stone-clad church that can be found around the back of the Bank of England has been on this site since at least the 12th-century.

A visit to St Columba’s Church of Scotland

On a side street not far from Harrods can be found a large but slightly dour-looking grey stone church.

Three churches to visit near Banbury

If you are in Banbury, maybe visiting Thenford Arboretum, then the trip between town and garden can also take in three ancient churches.

The chapel of the Convent of the Assumption

In a posh Kensington square, what looks to be a classic Victorian Anglican church is actually a French Catholic convent.

Visit St Bride Church’s ancient crypt and museum

The famous journalist's church on Fleet Street also contains a museum of over 2,000 years of London history in its crypt.

St. Luke’s Parish, Tiptree

In the heart of the jam making village of Tiptree is this grand and rather large parish church built in the middle of the Victorian era.

The medieval St Giles Cripplegate inside Barbican

Surround by the modern Barbican estate, this old church is one of the few within the City of London that are medieval in nature, having survived the Great Fire of London and WW2 bombs.

Holy Trinity Church Sloane Street

Just off Sloane Square is a church that amongst many notable things, also also famously wider that St Paul's Cathedral.

Chelsea’s Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer and St Thomas More

On a very small side street near Kings Road is a modern yet older looking Catholic Church with a very long name.

See inside St Bartholomew-the-Less church

Just around the corner from the grand and impressive St Bartholomew-the-Great church is its smaller cousin, the Less.

Tickets Alert: Opportunity to photograph inside Westminster Abbey

For the first time ever, Westminster Abbey is allowing photography within its building by members of the public.

Visit St James’s Church Piccadilly

There's a church next to busy Piccadilly Circus which most us probably know more from the market in its courtyard than the church behind.

Inside London’s own Notre Dame church

One of the more famous churches in London can be found just off Leicester Square, and was also once home to an even more famous entertainment venue.

Admire the “Wedgwood chapel” in Greenwich

Behind a gray stone facade and up some plain steps can be found a riot of blue and gold -- the Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College.

The churches of Cambridge

An old city with lots of wealth and people, has a lot of old churches to visit - so a perambulation around the Churches of Cambridge.

Ilford’s oldest building – the Norman era hospital chapel

Hidden behind a high wall, an ancient building in Ilford is not just the oldest building in Ilford, but one of the oldest in the entire of London.

The ancient church serving modern lunches

One of the oldest churches in the City of London has secured a new life, by serving up coffees and sarnies to hungry city workers.

Visit England’s only 18th century hospital chapel

A small door in an old building conceals a chapel to the memory of the man who founded a great hospital.