I’ll develop a detailed guide for exploring EC1 heritage, but meanwhile please visit the map - available here - and open the sidebar to get a list of places.
The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe. The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and a conservatory.
There’s no grass on the green, but rich history associated with the Lollards in the 16th century, the Chartists in the 19th century and communists in the 20th. Research Lenin at the Karl Marx library, and have a drink in the Crown where he may have met Stalin in 1903.
The unique and fascinating story of an ancient religious military Order, from its origins caring for sick pilgrims in eleventh century Jerusalem, through to its modern-day role with St John Ambulance, the international first aid charity.
St Bartholomew the Great is London’s oldest parish church, with a beautiful liturgy, a professional choir, and a vibrant congregation drawn from across London.
Smithfield is home to the largest wholesale meat market in the UK, with an 800 year history. Nearby religious martyrs were burned at the stake, the leader of the Peasants revolt Wat Tyler was slain by the Lord Mayor, and Barts Hospital founded.
Clerkenwell Road separates the site of St John Clerkenwell, former priory church, from the St John's Priory gateway. The Order of St John, which fundraises for St John's Ambulance now owns and manages a chapel and delightful garden behind the entrance.
Barts Pathology Museum is based in the grounds of St Bartholomews Hospital at West Smithfield and houses over 4,000 medical specimens on display over 3 mezzanine levels of the Victorian museum. The museum holds a further 1000 specimens in store along with another 800 that are dedicated to anatomy teaching. Together, this makes it one of the largest collections of human pathological specimens in the country.
The Charterhouse is a former Carthusian monastery in London, located between Barbican and Smithfield Market, and to the north of what is now Charterhouse Square. Since the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century the site has served as a private mansion, a boys’ school and an almshouse, which it remains to this day.
The Goldsmiths’ Centre is the UK’s leading charity for the professional training of goldsmiths. We bring together emerging and established goldsmiths with those interested in jewellery, silversmithing and the allied industries.
Barts Heritage is a charity formed in partnership with Barts Health NHS Trust to repair and renovate the Grade I listed North Wing and Henry VIII Gatehouse at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in the City of London. The North Wing houses two of England’s most important interiors, the Great Hall, and the Hogarth Stair with its massive paintings by William Hogarth, together with the historic Hospital archives and an extensive collection of art. These interiors and collections represent the historic heart of the Hospital and reflect 900 years of history.
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