WalkingSquares: St James Garlickhythe
Next time we visit London, I would like to do a trail just on the churches. I snapped this one during our Pepys trail, though I didn’t know its name until I reverse-searched it just now – my eye was caught from the other side of Upper Thames Street by the blue and gold clock. According to Wikipedia:
St James Garlickhythe is a Church of England parish church in Vintry ward of the City of London, nicknamed “Wren’s lantern” owing to its profusion of windows. Recorded since the 12th century, the church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and rebuilt by the office of Sir Christopher Wren. It is also the official church of eleven City livery companies.
Linked to Becky’s WalkingSquares.
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I love exploring churches too, but Mr ET doesn’t have my stamina so we do just a few. This one looks lovely.
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We only went into two on this walk because we were looking for other things, but there were so many more I would love to have explored.
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Next time…
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Hi Anabel – those churches will keep your feet-a-walking the leather off! Nicholas Hawksmoor’s churches alone would keep you enjoy the London air …
It’s a great part of historic London – cheers Hilary
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Interesting clock. It almost looks like an afterthought.
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Yes. I suspect it is much later than the tower.
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A London Churches Trail would be very cool. Is there an official one or will you trailblaze?
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I’m sure there are many. We picked up a leaflet about the Lost London Churches Project which would help. Or we could just look at a map! They seem to be every few hundred yards.
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Oh, interesting
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I thought so too!
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😊😊
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So many things to focus a walking trail on. I remember thinking that in Paris one could do a sundial trail. Did you know there are over a 100 sundials in Paris?
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I did not! That sounds amazing, definitely worth a trail. Or a sundial blog challenge 😉.
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Haha.. unfortunately I have not followed them, though I do have one or two sundials in my archives.
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I’ll probably see sundials everywhere now you’ve mentioned them.
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I had to look up its name, just so unusual – is it true that garlic was offloaded from ships nearby?!
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Well, the statement on Wikipedia is referenced by a serious sounding book, so I guess it must be!
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I love the clock. I guess a church trail will take a while 🙂 🙂
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Nothing like setting yourself a target!
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As Jo says, a trail of churches – even just the Wren churches – could keep you very busy indeed. But an interesting idea to follow through. My personal favourite (not a Wren church by a long way) is St. Bartholomew the Great: https://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=1586
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Didn’t see that one, it does look interesting. I doubt you could ever visit all the churches even in the City of London which is what I was thinking (badly worded) – we passed so many just on our Pepys walk alone.
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Exactly!
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Love the clock! You might need to do a few trails, Anabel- there must be dozens of churches in London?
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Maybe I should have been a bit more specific – the City of London! Even then, there are too many – we passed several I’d love to have looked inside – but a trail of selected churches would be good.
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well it is only a mile by mile so sounds possible 😀
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Given the amount of time we spent in the two we did visit, we would have to restrain ourselves!
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lol!!!
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🤗💟
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