IMAGES OF MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE

BRITAIN: ENGLAND
LONDON (THE PRIORY CHURCH OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW-THE-GREAT)

© Alison Stones


St. Bartholomew the Great west facade

PARTIAL MAP OF MEDIEVAL LONDON
Medieval London Map
Adapted from Historical atlas, Shepherd, p. 75
Note that, in the Middle Ages, Westminster, where Westminster Abbey
is located, was a seperate city, not a part of London.

INTERACTIVE FLOOR PLAN
St. Bart's Plan
Diagram ©2005 Philip Maye. Adapted from The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield, Worley, p. 85

Please click on a colored section or boxed label of the building above to view the images of that area.

Closister Fragment South Transept North Transept - interior Graveyard & Gatehouse Lady Chapel Ambulatory Window Choir Apse Crypt Narthex South Aisle North Aisle South Facade East Ambulatory Crossing Sanctuary North Transept - exterior West Facade

HISTORICAL IMAGES


GENERAL IMAGES

PLANS
Conjectural Plan - 1902 Conjectural Plan - 1949 Conjectural Plan - undated Modern Plan - 1902
Adapted from The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-
the-Great, Smithfield
, Worley, p. 15
©2005 Philip Maye, and The Priory Church of
St. Bartholomew-the-Great
Adapted from A History of Architecture
in London
, Godfrey
Adapted from The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield, Worley, p. 85
Conjectural Plan, at Dissolution - 1902 Conjectural Plan - 1949 Conjectural Plan - ? Modern Plan


SIGNS
St. Bart's sign Bartholomew's Passage
©2005 Philip Maye ©2005 Philip Maye
Sign on corner of St. Bartholomew's Hospital Sign for Passage behind the Lady Chapel



Preliminary Bibliography

Godfrey, Walter. A History of Architecture in London. London: B. T. Batsford, 1911.

Hill, William Thomson. Buried London; Mithras to the Middle Ages. London: Phoenix House, 1955.

Jenkinson, Wilberforce. London churches before the great fire. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1917.

Moore, Norman. The Church of St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield: Its Foundation, Present Condition, and Funeral Monuments. London: Printed in the parish by Adlard and Son, Bartholomew Close, 1902, Fifth edition.

Pevsner,Nikolaus. London: The Cities of London and Westminster. Revised by Breidget Cherry. London: Penguin Press, 1973.

Webb, E. A.(Edward A.). The records of St. Bartholomew's Priory and of the Church and Parish of St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield. Oxford: Printed at the University press for E. A. Webb,1921.

Worley, George. The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield. A short history of the foundation and a description of the fabric and also of the church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less. London, G. Bell and Sons, 1908.


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