The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 45. Hidden within the walls of the ancient St Barts Hospital is the church of St Bartholomew the Less... part medieval, part Georgian and part Victorian... this church is a welcome place of contemplation for the patients of and visitors to the hospital. It also has a...
Feb 12, 2025•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 44. Ok, it’s not a City church (it’s a stone’s throw from the boundary) BUT it’s worth a podcast. It’s hidden: set back from the quiet cul de sac behind the diamond district of Hatton Garden, St Etheldreda’s Catholic church is a gem of its own; a medieval survivor an...
Feb 12, 2025•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 43. St Helen's Bishopsgate. From the weird bollard outside the church to the unusually elaborate doorway that leads out of it, St Helen's is full of curiosities and features I've not yet encountered while producing this series. Here you will find nun's squints, raise...
Feb 12, 2025•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 42. St Margaret Lothbury’s name is curious… and so are its features. It contains a hoard of ecclesiastical items taken from other (now gone) City of London Churches including an unusual candy-cane wooden screen, a giant tester board, some impressive memorials and gig...
Jun 14, 2023•26 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 41. All that remains of St Bartholomew the Great is still indeed great. Some of the spectacular features of this 900 year old half-church are its Norman architecture, its delightful memorial to the Whitings family, a golden Damien Hirst sculpture of St Bartholomew an...
Jun 06, 2023•23 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 40. St Mary Abchurch demonstrates yet another of Christopher Wren's methods of creating a large domed roof. It also contains superb wood carving by Grinling Gibbons. Hear about the many details contained within its unassuming brick walls as a few myths about the chur...
May 24, 2023•21 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 39. Hear Rector George Bush explain once and for all that the bells of St Mary-le-Bow were indeed the Bow bells! More than this, this church has the most extraordinary stained glass windows, has a 9ft dragon as a weather vane, and has always been connected to the Arc...
Mar 13, 2023•20 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 38. Oddly Christopher Wren's largest parish church (now a guild church) is well hidden below Holborn Circus. But don't miss out on St Andrew Holborn which has recently been refurbished and brought back to its former splendour. Connected to the church are Prime Minist...
Feb 12, 2023•26 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 37. This is the only church in the East of England dedicated to St Bridget and there is much to learn about it… layers and layers of London’s history… of stones… of unusual treasures… of people: From the Roman pavements in the depths of the crypt to the top of the ‘w...
Dec 13, 2022•34 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 36. Woof! The only church in the city of London to deliver an animal blessing service. Hear from the pets and their owners about this annual event. Also hear from Rector Fr. David Armstrong about the rebellious nature of this liberal church, its tennis court and its ...
Nov 02, 2022•20 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 35. This is the only Roman Catholic church in the square mile and it's easily mistaken for a shop! But do take a walk through its oft open doors for some peace and tranquility and tune in to this podcast where Fr Chris Vipers shares its history, features and a sense ...
Sep 30, 2022•22 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 34. St Olave Hart Street has been described by John Betjeman, once poet laureate, as a ‘country church’ but was also described by Charles Dickens in one of his essays a century earlier as ‘the church of ghastly grim’. It was also the local church for the great diaris...
Aug 19, 2022•14 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 33. St Mary-at-Hill – home of the Fish Harvest Festival. Tucked in between two atmospheric, cobbled alleys up from old Billingsgate market is another church with peculiar and diverse associations including trombone playing vicars and plague pits. Hear here from the f...
Jul 27, 2022•16 min•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone 'City of London Churches' podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and may churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 32. City Temple: In the City but not "of the city". This is a a non-conformist church with a polycultural congregation and behind the Victorian facade is a post-war building full of surprises. Want to know more? With thanks to Rev Rodney Woods for sharing its history ...
Nov 27, 2021•23 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 31. This is said to be the most perfectly proportioned building in the world. It is also where Samaritans began its life and where you can sing to your hearts content every week. Step inside and hear about this and more from Fiona Lukas and Tony Tucker, and Tom and E...
Sep 24, 2021•21 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 30. St Katharine Cree was built to keep the riff raff out of the nearby Priory. It pre-dates the Great Fire of London. Every year a sermon is preached from here entitled 'In the Lion's Den'. And most movingly, it is the church where people who have a connection to th...
Sep 15, 2021•28 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 29. You may challenge my inclusion of this private, floating, chapel in the City of London Churches series… but I think its story is worth hearing. And it is, after all, within the boundaries of the City, hiding in plain sight. Listen to Commissioner Dawn Heatwole sh...
Nov 12, 2020•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Behind a very plain door of an ordinary terraced house on a main road in South West London you’ll find the incredible craftsmanship, vision and atmosphere as created by the Kenyan civil servant Mr Asalache. Pass through the door to hear more… or just listen to this. Thanks to the National Trust and Rachel Pearson.
Oct 27, 2020•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 28. In the middle of the brutalist Barbican stands the medieval church of St Giles Cripplegate with some prominent and some touchingly simple memorials to many famous men, and one intriguing woman. With thanks to Tony Tucker from the Friends of the City Churches and ...
Sep 01, 2019•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 27. The smallest and least obvious of all City of London churches, St Clement Eastcheap is the church that features in the nursery rhyme ‘Oranges and Lemons’. Today it’s an office! Thanks to Tony Tucker from the Friends of the City Churches.
Aug 22, 2019•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 26. Fish, coffee and smudgy windows all appear in this beautifully restored Christopher Wren church which is also very well attended by the young city workforce.
Aug 05, 2019•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 25. No other City of London church is as surprising as this one. Its bleak and foreboding exterior betrays its crisp classical and bright interior. Thanks to Friends of City Churches, and author Tony Tucker
Jul 28, 2019•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 24. This church will delight you with its fabulous combination of music and death! And who was St Sepulchre? Thanks to Jill Finch, Alexandra Epps and the Halcyon Quartet www.halcyon-quartet.com
Jul 20, 2019•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 23. St Mary Aldermary is one of the few 17th century gothic churches you'll find in the City of London. At lunch you'll hear the hum of local workers enjoying their break but at the start and end of the day the relaxed breath of a meditation group. Thanks to Keith Bi...
Jul 11, 2019•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 22. St Vedast Alias Foster has a secret garden containing an ancient Syrian rock familiar to Agatha Christie, a Roman pavement and a memorial to a Russian soldier who is described thus: “This was a man”. With thanks to Jill Finch and Tony Tucker from Friends of the C...
Jul 05, 2019•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 21. Start your pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela here, but before you leave don’t forget to listen to the church’s famous bells and look for the mummified corpse hiding in the tower. With thanks to Bell Ringer Dickon Love, Church Watcher Susan Konowich and Rev Tim...
Jun 23, 2019•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 20. Prominently placed on Guildhall Yard, this grand church has strong links with the City of London Corporation and the livery companies. Step inside for ceremonies, symbols and sensational stained glass windows. Thanks to Alexandra Epps from Art in the City, Tony T...
Jun 15, 2019•30 sec•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 19. Just outside the eastern gate of the City of London, the welcoming church of St Botolph without Aldgate hides London's oldest organ. Hear it played and enjoy its Georgian surroundings. Thanks to Church watcher Becky Banfield, Rev Laura Jørgensen and Director of M...
Jun 03, 2019•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 18. St Michael Cornhill looks like like all the other 18th century City churches on the outside, but walk inside to find a church full of Victorian gothic details. Thanks to City Guides Alexandra Epps, Jill Finch and Church Watcher Steve Welsh.
May 28, 2019•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 17. By some miracle, St Martin's is one of the most original of Christopher Wren's churches in the City of London and is used today for traditional Anglican services as well as for Chinese gospel singing worshippers. Tune in to hear more about it's bread shelves, pen...
May 18, 2019•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
