London’s Small Museums: All Hallows By The Tower
A Saxon arch, an antique model of Roman London and a crow’s nest from one of Shackleton’s ships.
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Church Headstones Smashed To Rubble In Greenwich
Finger of blame points at local interest group.
Top 10 Most Fabulous Faith Buildings In London
Our round-up of some of London’s prettiest, most interesting and most unusual places of worship.
Londonist Out Loud: Inside St Sepulchre’s Church With Mike Paterson
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, …
STYLEist: Sunday Best at the Annual Grimaldi Service
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. …
iPod Given Approval By iGod
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 …
Church Objects To Hire Bike Scheme
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 …
Church Told To Shush In Walthamstow
The Immanuel International Christian Centre in Waltamstow PRAISE THE LORD! are under orders to turn the sound down during Sunday services, having received a complaint from a resident living nearby PRAISE HIM! Now limited to only 20 minutes of music between 11.30am and 11.50am, the …
Crystal Palace Campaigners Call For Cinema
Image / chutney bannister We’re not calling it a trend quite yet, but campaigners in Crystal Palace are following the marker set down by Walthamstowites trying to save Hitchcock’s cinema by campaiging for a local bingo hall to be transformed into a picture palace. In …
Wimbledon Visitors Use Graveyard As Car Park
Seems that fans travelling to watch the action at Wimbledon are being allowed to park their cars on the graves of British tennis players’ careers deceased folk at a nearby cemetery. St Mary’s Church in Wimbledon Village regularly charges punters £20 a day during the …
Man Steals Church Roof Using Google Earth
Roofless efficiency It was only a matter of time. Londoner Tom Berge is serving eight months at Her Majesty’s pleasure after bending Google Earth to evil purposes. The 27-year-old builder used the mapping site to spot lead roofs in South London. He’d then scale the …
