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Eclectic treasures, Christian movements and sacrificial beheadings, with N Quentin Woolf

Eat cake, save a church.

Watch Dracula in a church.

A Saxon arch, an antique model of Roman London and a crow’s nest from one of Shackleton’s ships.

Finger of blame points at local interest group.

Our round-up of some of London’s prettiest, most interesting and most unusual places of worship.

This audio has expired. For episode pictures and other Londonist Out Loud material please see here. The ways in which London’s history can be accessed are as varied and disparate as the many aspects of the capital’s past. N Quentin Woolf talks to Mike Paterson, …

Every year on the second Sunday of February, a church service is held in East London to honour the father of present day Clowns, Joseph Grimaldi. Clowns from around the world gather in full ‘motley and slap’ to give thanks for the gift of laughter. …

Photo / andykee How to get modern man, with all his digital devices, to darken the doors of your church? Just tell him that God’s down with all the tech. The Rev Canon David Parrott, of St Lawrence Jewry next Guildhall in the City, blessed …

Image / pfog Churchmen at the Brompton Oratory in Kensington are taking a NIMBY-ish stance to the location of a docking station for TfL’s new hire bikes. They say putting the station, which holds 28 of the forthcoming bikes, outside the church will “disturb the …