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.
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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.
The magnificently restored Roman Catholic Church of St Monica
An old Roman Catholic church was undergoing restoration when they uncovered something remarkable, and now the restoration is astonishing.
St Paul’s Cathedral drops photography ban
St Paul’s Cathedral has decided to allow photography within the building, overturning a ban that was often surreptitiously ignored anyway.
St John the Baptist Church, Aldbury
A tiny village contains an exceptionally old, and magnificent church. This is St John the Baptist Church in Aldbury, near Tring.
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