St Bartholomew-the-Great

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Abbey Cemetery in Smithfield
Monastery church coat of arms of 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

  • Entrance to the monastery church

  • Entrance facade in Smithfield

  • Left aisle

  • Right aisle

  • Central nave and choir

  • Cloisters of the priory church

  • Tomb of
    Prior Raherius

  • Monastery church organ

  • Monastery church bay window

  • Lady Chapel of St. Bartholomew-the-Great Abbey Church

  • Monastery church interior

  • Smithfield Market (1827)

  • St. Barts Hospital

  • St. Barts viewed from West Smithfield

Furnishing

Technical data of the organ in the monastery church are described in the "National Pipe Organ Register".

literature

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.british-history.ac.uk
  2. ↑ www.stbartstheless.org.uk
  3. ↑ St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield [D03193 ] . Retrieved December 6, 2014.

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '7.9 "  N , 0 ° 5' 58.8"  W.