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Oct 23, 2024 · But it was probably owned by Sir Walter Mildmay, who lived in the parish, and with his wife lies buried in the church, for he addressed a letter on the 6th February 1560–1561 to Sir William Cecil (afterwards Lord Burleigh) dated from St. Bartholomew's; and although nine years later Lord Burleigh in his diary says that Sir Walter had his house ...
- Slype, Chapter-House, and Dorter
- The Southern Range
- Western Range
The Slype.
The slype is shown in Hardwick's and other plans in the usualposition between the south transept and the chapter-house. Thelower parts of its walls were exposed in 1912 when the chapter-housesite was excavated for secular building purposes. It measured 10 ft.in width and probably extended 32 ft. in length, which was thebreadth of the transept. No entrance from the cloister is shown inHardwick's plan, but doubtless there was one as at Norwich andelsewhere, because the slype formed the passage...
Chapter-house.
The chapter-house (capitulum) adjoined the slype on the south sideand is so shown on Hardwick's and Wilkinson's plans. It was built—as already said—about the year 1160, and was rectangular in form,as was usual in monasteries of the twelfth century. It measured53 ft. 4 in. by 27 ft. 10 in., being rather smaller than that at HolyTrinity Aldgate, which is shown as measuring 58 ft. by 33 ft. Itswest front occupied, as was usual, three bays of the east cloisterwalk; (fn. 3) and it had the usual th...
The Dorter.
The dorter or dormitory (Dormitorium) adjoined the chapter-houseon the south side and extended southward into Bartholomew Close,occupying the whole of the site of No. 61, now the City of LondonUnion Offices. It measured externally 135 ft. north to south and 35 ft. east towest. The dormitory proper was on the first floor and was reachedby the dorter stair, the entrance to which was from the bay of thecloister immediately south of the chapter-house. On the groundfloor was a large undercroft, us...
The Refectory or Frater.
The frater (refectorium), the parlour (locutorium), the misericord,the kitchen (coquina), with its pantry and buttery, formed the southernrange and may be considered together, as the only records we haveare common to them all (see plan, p. 77). King Henry VIII in his grant to Rich in the year 1544 (fn. 26) simplyrefers to 'le frater', 'le ketchyn', 'le botry' (buttery), 'le pantry',and 'le old ketchyn'. But Rich in his grant to Mary in 1555 (fn. 27) describes their position and mentions other...
Guest-house and Cellarer's Quarters.
The great hall, guesten or guest-house (hospitium) must have beenof considerable proportions. Pope Alexander V in his grant of indulgencies in 1409 (fn. 39) said: 'The monastery being situate in a very famous place of the realm,very many resort thither from the realm and from divers otherregions to its great burden.' In the year 1321, when the Earl of Hereford led the barons to Londonto denounce the Despensers, (fn. 40) it was at St. Bartholomew's that themeeting was held to receive the reply...
Feb 1, 2023 · The claim to be London’s oldest surviving parish church rests on the fact that the rent-paying residents of the 53 tenements in St Bartholomew’s close had long enjoyed the use of a chapel on the north side of the monastic church and a small associated burial ground.
- Current Archaeology
To the south of the church, near the gatehouse, is the Cloister Café, housed in a beautifully vaulted ambulatory, the only part that remains of the Augustinian priory’s cloister. The cloister was originally built in 1160, but rebuilt in 1405.
Oct 20, 2023 · However St Bartholomew’s came into existence, its medieval form and evolution are not in doubt. The priory and hospital each came to occupy a walled enclosure, divided by a lane. The former assumed a familiar monastic form, its buildings arranged around a cloister, with a notably ambitious church laid out on a cross-shaped plan.
Jul 27, 2023 · Why Visit St Bartholomew the Great? For a look at one of the oldest churches in London, and one with some genuinely old sections that date back to the founding – not something that’s easy to come by in London.
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5 days ago · The Close seems to have been called St. Bartholomew's Close until the time of the Commonwealth, when the prefix was dropped and has never been restored. The eastern half of Duck Lane, now Little Britain, as seen by 'the bounds' is within the parish.
