St Bartholomew-the-Great
St Bartholomew-the-Great is a church building in West Smithfield in the City of London .
history
The monastery church was founded in 1123 by the canon Rahere as part of an Augustinian canon monastery . Rahere was the court jester of King Heinrich I , the son of William the Conqueror . Rahere fell ill with malaria on a pilgrimage to Rome . During a vision St. Bartholomew appeared to him and saved him.
After his recovery, Rahere decided to become an Augustinian canon. In honor of St. Bartholomew, he founded a monastery with an attached hospital, which still exists today and in which Rahere and his confreres cared for the poor sick. The large St. Bartholomew-the-Great monastery church belonged to the monastery . The monastery and church were financed with the proceeds of the Bartholomew Mass, one of the largest annual fairs in London.
architecture
Furnishing
Technical data of the organ in the monastery church are described in the "National Pipe Organ Register".
literature
- Tina Bird: St. Bartholomew-the-Great. (2008)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.british-history.ac.uk
- ↑ www.stbartstheless.org.uk
- ↑ St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield [D03193 ] . Retrieved December 6, 2014.
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '7.9 " N , 0 ° 5' 58.8" W.