Discovering Tudor London E-Book

Natalie Grueninger

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• Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung

This engaging and practical travel guide takes you on a journey through the best of Tudor London, to sites built and associated with this fascinating dynasty, and to the museums and galleries that house tantalising treasures from this rich period of history. Join the author as she explores evocative historical sites, including the magnificent great hall of Eltham Palace, the most substantial surviving remnant of the medieval palace where Henry VIII spent time as a child, and the lesser-known delights of St Helen's Church, dubbed the 'Westminster Abbey of the City' for its impressive collection of Tudor monuments. A range of photographs, maps and visitor information, together with an informative narrative, bring the most intriguing personalities and stories of the thirty plus sites across Greater London vividly to life. This a must have companion for both those planning their own 'Tudor pilgrimage' and for the armchair traveller alike.

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I dedicate this book to my beloved children, Isabel and Tristan.

Cover illustration: Copyright of Kathryn Holeman.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

A Taste of Tudor London

Tudor Timeline

PART 1: Map & Suggested Itineraries

Map: Discovering Tudor London

3 Day Tour

5 Day Tour

7 Day Tour

10 Day Tour

Must-Haves For A Tudor London Pilgrimage

PART 2: Houses, Halls, Palaces & Castles

Eltham Palace

Fulham Palace

Guildhall, London

Hampton Court Palace

Jewel Tower, Westminster

Lambeth Palace

Lincoln’s Inn

Sutton House

The Tower of London

Westminster Hall

PART 3: Churches & Religious Houses

All Hallows by the Tower

Chelsea Old Church

Christchurch Greyfriars Church Garden

Southwark Cathedral

St Bartholomew the Great

St Dunstan-in-the-West

St Etheldreda’s

St Helen’s, Bishopsgate

St Magnus the Martyr

St Margaret’s Church, Westminster

St Olave, Hart Street

The London Charterhouse

Westminster Abbey

Part 4: Museums & Galleries

The British Museum

Museum of London

Museum of the Order of St John

National Portrait Gallery

Tate Britain

The British Library

The Garden Museum

The National Archives

Victoria and Albert Museum

List of Illustrations

Further Reading

Author Contact Information

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My sincerest thanks to Mark Beynon and the staff at The History Press for making this book possible. Thank you to my sister, Karina, for taking the time to read and offer feedback on my writing, and for the many laughs, inspiring conversations and flutes of champers along the way. Gratitude also to my mother, one of the most talented writers I’ve ever known, for instilling in me a love of words. My sincere thanks also go to the curators and co-ordinators who so graciously corresponded with me over email, answering my many questions and assisting me to acquire some of the wonderful images presented in this book. A special thanks to my dear friend Sarah Morris, for welcoming me into her home on my last research trip, and also to Val, for taking the time to show me around Tudor Hackney. A special thanks to the visitors to my website (www.onthetudortrail.com)and the online Tudor community on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for their enthusiastic contributions, friendship and continued support. And most importantly, I would like to offer a heartfelt thanks to my husband and children, Chris, Isabel and Tristan, without whom this book could not have been written. Thank you for your constant support, love and encouragement, and for understanding and respecting my love of sixteenth-century England.

Let no one say the past is dead.

The past is all about us and within.

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

INTRODUCTION

The past has always called to me. For as long as I can remember, I have been attuned to the velvety whispers of those who have walked this earth before me, silvery fingers beckoning me to follow, compelling me to journey back in time to discover more about the people and events, now seemingly lost to us. For the last seven years I’ve pursued these voices, and dedicated many hours and much energy to researching and writing about the Tudors, through the lens of the great houses, palaces and castles where their stories unfurled.

This love of learning history on the very stage where it played out led me to create, in 2009, ‘On the Tudor Trail’, a website dedicated to documenting historic sites associated with Anne Boleyn and sharing information about prominent Tudor personalities and daily life in sixteenth-century England. In 2013, my debut book, In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn, co-authored with Sarah Morris, was published in the UK, followed by In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII, another collaboration between Sarah and myself, in March 2016.

Why the fascination with places? These sites are the keepers of history, the guardians of stories, whose protagonists have long returned to dust. They are portals between our world and theirs.

Through reading, we can come to know the Tudors, intellectually. We can learn about the larger-than-life personalities, the politics and great personal dramas that so captivate us, and spend hours poring over their personal correspondence, state papers and portraits. But when we stand where the Tudors once stood and see what they saw, our connection deepens. Suddenly, they step out from the pages of history books and become living, breathing people once more.

It’s in these moments that things I’ve read about and thought I had understood finally hit home, bringing fresh insights. It’s also when I experience the strongest emotional connection to the past, which is precisely wherein lies the power of places – in their ability to touch us emotionally, to leap the chasm between past and present and unite us on a soul level.

When I stand in a place – be it an intact building, ruins or even an empty field – that once bore witness to the defining moments of the era, and the quiet ones too, and absorb its history and its moods, I feel that great gulf close and time gradually dissipate. In those moments, the past feels as though it’s standing alongside me.

Tyburn Tree (Gallows) Plaque, 2016. This plaque, found on the traffic island at the junction of Bayswater and Edgeware Roads, marks the approximate location of the notorious Tyburn gallows, where thousands of people lost their lives. (Author’s collection)

THE BIRTH OF DISCOVERING TUDOR LONDON

This project was inspired by the many people who’ve contacted me over the years, asking for suggestions of places to visit in London, associated with the Tudors. Often people are only visiting London for a long weekend, and so are eager to discover what the ‘must-see’ places are. Frequently, I’m asked to suggest longer itineraries, such as five, seven or ten-day trips, and am regularly asked for suggestions of places to visit that are off the main tourist trail. While I responded to each request individually, an idea was sparked, and I felt compelled to write a guidebook to sites associated with the Tudors in London, which could all be comfortably visited in a ten-day stay.

The challenging part was selecting which places to include. In the end I chose to feature both buildings associated with or built by the Tudors, and the galleries and museums that house treasures from this period of history. Because just as places can transport us back in time and connect us to people and events from long ago, so too can things. They can be powerful conduits of moments. For example, a handwritten letter to a lover recalls a very specific point in time, and allows us to share in a potent heart-felt experience.

I also decided to include only those places where there is something substantial left to see, and importantly, which are open to the public. This immediately ruled out some major sites, such as that of Tyburn Gallows, Greenwich Palace and Whitehall Palace, all of which played an important role in the story of the Tudors, but where, sadly, there is nothing or very little left to see above ground. It also meant excluding places like St James’ Palace and Crosby Hall, as they are not open to the public.

Hence, this book is not a comprehensive guide but rather a curated guide to what I consider the best of Tudor London, based on the above principles.

The Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 2013. Beneath the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich lie the remains of Greenwich Palace, a favoured Tudor residence, where Henry VIII, Mary I and Elizabeth I were born. (Author’s collection)

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

In Part 1 of Discovering Tudor London, you’ll find four suggested itineraries of varying lengths, covering sites in London and Greater London. The one exception to this rule is the inclusion of Hampton Court Palace in Surrey, an exceptional Tudor time capsule. More survives of Hampton Court than any other Tudor palace, and so I felt compelled to include it in this guidebook. In the next sections you’ll find information about each location on the itineraries, including a short history; a description, if known, of the building’s appearance in the sixteenth century; a summary of the key events that took place there and a visitor information section. The individual entries will also provide you with contact details, tips on where to eat, what to see, nearest tube station etc. A map to help you gauge distances also accompanies the itineraries.

Of course, rather than follow my suggested itineraries, you can organise your own but do keep in mind that certain locations are only open on certain days, and so be sure to check opening hours carefully to avoid being disappointed. If you’re visiting some of the smaller churches, I suggest you email ahead to confirm visiting hours, as these often close with little or no notice.

The thirty-two main locations included in this guidebook are organised into the following three sections: Part 2: Houses, Halls, Palaces & Castles, Part 3: Churches & Religious Houses and Part 4: Museums & Galleries. An extensive range of illustrations, including photographs and paintings, complements the text.

My sincerest hope is that this book will help bring London’s Tudor past to life, and make the task of planning your own Tudor London pilgrimage much easier.

I do hope you enjoy your journey back in time!

Natalie Grueninger 2016

A TASTE OF TUDOR LONDON

At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Tudor London was a bustling city of around 60,000 inhabitants. The City came under the jurisdiction of the lord mayor and sheriffs of London, whose job it was to maintain order and cleanliness. It was the most prosperous city in England, on account of it being a flourishing trading centre and an important port, and was by far the largest city in the country, rapidly becoming one of the biggest in Europe. To offer some comparison, the second largest city in Tudor England was Norwich, which at the beginning of the Tudor reign had a population of about 10,600.

London (or Londinium) was founded in Roman times, in around AD 50, although most historians agree that the region had been occupied for thousands of years before then.

In about AD 200 the Romans built a defensive wall and ditch around the city to protect its inhabitants from attack and to make the job of collecting taxes easier. These walls, around 6m high, remained long after the Roman occupation ended and defined the boundaries of Tudor London. However, by the sixteenth century, the city’s population had already begun to spill out beyond these limits, and two smaller towns lay outside the walled city, Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames, and Westminster – the seat of government.

The ancient Roman walls enclosed a space of around 1 square mile, and were bounded by open fields to the north and the Thames to the south. In this relatively small area there were around 100 parishes, each comprising only of a few streets. Apart from the 100 plus parish churches, there was also the great cathedral of St Paul and a number of religious houses. The London skyline was dominated by spires and towers, the tallest of which was the steeple of St Paul, which rose to around 460ft, until it was destroyed in 1561 after being struck by lightning. Just outside the city walls, to the east, stood the Tower of London, as it still does to this day.

A nineteenth-century reconstruction of the City of London and its environs in Tudor times by H.W. Brewer. Old St Paul’s Cathedral is visible in the background, and in the foreground, a section of the Tower of London’s moat and the scaffold on Tower Hill. (Author’s collection)

Immediately beyond the wall was the ditch, a constant cause of headache for the authorities, who despite their best efforts were unable to dissuade people from using it as a sewer and dumping ground. One can just imagine the smell that emanated from there!

The city wall, which had over the years been rebuilt and repaired, extended from Tower Hill in the east to Blackfriars in the west, and was punctuated by seven main gates – Aldgate, Bishopsgate, Moorgate (built in 1415), Cripplegate, Aldersgate, Newgate and Ludgate. These were not gates in the modern sense, but rather multi-storey buildings that contained an archway or two for traffic to pass through and were protected by a portcullis and other defensive features. They often served as accommodation – in the case of Cripplegate, Aldersgate, Ludgate and Newgate, as prisons too – but perhaps their most grisly function was as a place to display the dismembered body parts of traitors. In June 1497, the leaders of the Cornish Rebellion were hung, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, about a 3-mile walk west of the city, and some of their limbs nailed to the city gates. There was also a gate at the southern end of London Bridge, where the severed heads of traitors were regularly displayed, the first of which is recorded as having been that of William Wallace, executed in 1305.

After curfew, rung by the bells of St Mary-le-Bow and other churches at around 9 p.m. in summer or dusk in winter, the gates were locked for the night, and not reopened until dawn. During this time, no one was permitted entry into the City and those inside the walls had to leave the streets and return to their homes – undoubtedly the safest place to be, at least after dark. The narrow and crowded streets of Tudor London could be very dangerous. The threat of meeting some unsavoury character was a very real possibility but it was not your only concern.

Apart from the principal streets, most were unpaved and their surfaces uneven. At times they were made almost impassable by ruts and holes. Those streets that were cobbled were often slippery and muddy, and difficult to navigate, especially at night. It’s little wonder that Londoners only ventured out after curfew in exceptional circumstances.

As for cleanliness, in theory each citizen was required to keep the space in front of his or her house relatively clean, whether this was strictly adhered to is uncertain. Like today, there would have been householders that took extra pride in the appearance of their street frontage, and others who did not. While some of the larger houses had enclosed latrines that emptied into deep cesspits, most would have made do with a bucket or ‘close stool’, which would be emptied daily into a stream or river, or into the ditch surrounding the city.

The twisting lanes and alleys were dark even on the brightest day, because Tudor homes were often built with the first floor overhanging the street, so close in fact that from your first floor window you could almost touch your neighbour across the street.

Apart from being gloomy and very likely smelly, the streets were also very noisy. Church bells dictated the day’s activities, market bells rang to mark the beginning and end of trading, tradesmen and pedlars shouted about their wares to passers-by, animals – namely pigs – roamed freely and the town criers delivered the latest news. Probably noisiest of all, were the metalworkers, including the blacksmiths, farriers and cutlers whose clanging and hammering could be heard from a distance. A walk around Tudor London would have been an assault on the senses.

The City was also a place of contrasts. While many of the alleys were narrow and lined with humble houses, where the poor of London lived, other streets were wide and bordered by grand four- and five-storey residences that boasted glass in all their windows – homes to the city’s rich merchant population. Cheapside was one such street. It was the widest street in Tudor London, the principal market place and home to several conduits, including the Great Conduit, a large stone fountain where each day, people lined up to collect water. It was also an important part of the ancient coronation route from the Tower of London to Westminster.

The congested streets and insalubrious back alleys, meant that, whenever possible, Londoners preferred to travel by water. The main thoroughfare and the heart of the city was the Thames. There, Londoners or visitors could hire a wherry to take them up and down the river, where at any one time there could be hundreds of boats, ranging from small vessels to dung-boats and merchant ships on the water. About twenty or so quays and wharves lined the north bank of the river from the Tower up to London Bridge.

In the sixteenth century, this ancient monument was considered one of the great wonders of the world. It was completed in 1209 and, until the eighteenth century, was the only bridge to traverse the Thames in London. The bridge was supported by twenty Gothic arches, built on piers and protected by vast timber starlings, which significantly narrowed the water channels, and led to a torrent of water pouring between them at high and low tides. To venture under the bridge at these times was extremely dangerous, and known as ‘shooting the bridge’.

The road that ran along the length of the bridge was around 275m long and 6m wide at its widest, although in some sections it narrowed to less than 4m, just one lane north and one south, shared by pedestrians, carts and horses.

A reconstruction of Tudor Cheapside by H.W. Brewer. Old St Paul’s Cathedral can be seen in the background, St Mary-le-Bow on the left and the great conduit in the centre. (Author’s collection)

Temple Bar, 2016. This was the principal ceremonial entrance to the City of London from Westminster. It once stood on the junction of Fleet Street and the Strand. This monument, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, is the successor to the medieval gate, which stood in Tudor times. (Author’s collection)

This reduction in space was a result of the buildings that crowded the bridge and ran almost its entire length, including houses and shops – the rent from which paid for the upkeep of the bridge – public toilets, a chapel and a drawbridge. These buildings projected out over the river and were often joined across the roadway, transforming the bridge into a tunnel in places.

The medieval bridge stood until 1831, by which time a new bridge, designed by John Rennie, had been built about 55m west of the old bridge, which was then dismantled. Rennie’s bridge, however, did not survive as long as its predecessor and by 1973 a new bridge had been erected on the same site – the present-day London Bridge.

A nineteenth-century reconstruction of the City of London and its environs in Tudor times by H.W. Brewer. In the top left corner stands Westminster Palace, next to which can be seen Whitehall Palace. In the centre is Old London Bridge, and in the foreground, the Tower of London. In the bottom left-hand corner is St Katherine’s. (Author’s collection)

By the end of the Tudor reign, the population of London is estimated to have quadrupled and risen to somewhere in the vicinity of 200,000. As a result of the serious overcrowding and poor public sanitation, Tudor Londoners suffered from many diseases, including smallpox, measles, malaria, typhus and dysentery. Outbreaks of the ‘sweating sickness’ also occurred throughout this period. This highly contagious and often fatal disease could kill a person within hours of the first symptom. In 1551, it claimed the lives of both teenage sons of Charles Brandon and Catherine Willoughby, within hours of each other.

As the hub of trade and industry, and the centre of literature and the arts, London continued to draw people from all over the country and abroad. At the close of the sixteenth century, as the sun began to set on the Tudor reign, the historian John Stow described it as the ‘fairest, largest, richest and best inhabited city in the world’.

This diverse and vibrant city, however, would suffer greatly over the succeeding centuries, when fire and war would destroy much of its ancient fabric. Some buildings, though, remarkably survived, and stand today as a testament to the short-lived but captivating Tudor dynasty.

A nineteenth-century reconstruction of the City of London and its environs in Tudor times by H.W. Brewer. In the background, from left to right, are St Bartholomew the Great, the Charterhouse, St John’s Clerkenwell and St James’ Priory Clerkenwell. (Author’s collection)

TUDOR TIMELINE

1485

22 August Henry Tudor defeats Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth and becomes the first king of the House of Tudor

1486

18 January Henry VII marries Elizabeth of York, uniting the Houses of Lancaster and York

1491

28 June Prince Henry Tudor (later Henry VIII) is born

1501

14 November Prince Arthur marries Katherine of Aragon at old St Paul’s Cathedral

1502

2 April Prince Arthur dies at Ludlow Castle

1503

11 February Elizabeth of York dies at the Tower of London

8 August Princess Margaret marries James IV of Scotland

1509

21 April Death of Henry VII and accession of Henry VIII

11 June Henry VIII marries Katherine of Aragon, his brother’s widow

24 June Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon are crowned at Westminster Abbey

29 June Death of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII and grandmother of Henry VIII

1514

15 September Thomas Wolsey appointed Archbishop of York

9 October Princess Mary Tudor marries Louis XII of France

1515

February After the death of Louis XII, Princess Mary secretly marries Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk

September Thomas Wolsey appointed cardinal

1516

18 February Princess Mary Tudor (later Mary I) is born

1519

15 June Birth of Henry Fitzroy, illegitimate son of Henry VIII by Elizabeth Blount

1520

7–24 June Field of the Cloth of Gold

1529

25 October Sir Thomas More appointed Lord Chancellor

1530

29 November Thomas Wolsey dies at Leicester Abbey

1532

1 September Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke

16 May Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor

11 October Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sail to Calais to meet Francis I

1533

25 January Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn

30 March Thomas Cranmer is consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury

1 June Anne Boleyn is crowned at Westminster Abbey

25 June Mary Tudor, former queen of France and sister of Henry VIII, dies at Westhorpe Hall in Suffolk

11 July Pope Clement VII excommunicates King Henry VIII

7 September Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth I) is born at Greenwich Palace

1534

April Thomas Cromwell is appointed the king’s principal secretary

1535

6 July Sir Thomas More is executed

1536

7 January Katherine of Aragon dies

17 May George Boleyn, Henry Norris, Francis Weston, William Brereton and Mark Smeaton are executed on Tower Hill

19 May Anne Boleyn is executed at the Tower of London

30 May Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour

22 (or 23) July Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, dies at St James’ Palace

October–December Pilgrimage of Grace

1537

12 October Prince Edward (later Edward VI) is born at Hampton Court Palace

24 October Queen Jane Seymour dies at Hampton Court Palace

1538

17 December Pope Paul III excommunicates King Henry VIII

1540

6 January Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves

9 July Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne of Cleves is declared null and void

28 July Thomas Cromwell is executed at the Tower of London

28 July Henry VIII marries Catherine Howard

1541

18 October Death of Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII

10 December Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham, alleged lovers of Catherine Howard, are executed for treason at Tyburn

1542

13 February Catherine Howard and Jane Boleyn are executed at the Tower of London

14 December Death of James V of Scotland, Accession of Mary, Queen of Scots

1543

12 July Henry VIII marries Katherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace

1545

19 July The Mary Rose sinks

1546

16 July Anne Askew burnt at the stake at Smithfield, alongside John Lascelles

1547

28 January Death of Henry VIII and accession of Edward VI

20 February Edward VI is crowned at Westminster Abbey

June Katherine Parr’s marriage to Thomas Seymour becomes public knowledge

1548

30 August Katherine Parr gives birth to a daughter at Sudeley Castle

5 September Katherine Parr dies at Sudeley Castle

1553

6 July Edward VI dies at Greenwich Palace

10 July Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed queen

1 October Queen Mary I is crowned at Westminster Abbey

1554

12 February Lady Jane Grey and her husband, Guildford Dudley are executed at the Tower of London

18 March Princess Elizabeth is imprisoned in the Tower of London following Wyatt’s rebellion, and later put under house arrest at the palace at Woodstock

25 July Queen Mary marries Philip of Spain at Winchester Cathedral

1555

April Princess Elizabeth returns to court

October Queen Mary gives permission for her half-sister, Elizabeth, to return to her house at Hatfield

1556

21 March Thomas Cranmer is burnt at the stake

1557

16 July Anne of Cleves dies at Chelsea Manor

1558

7 January Calais falls to the French

17 November Death of Queen Mary and accession of Elizabeth I

1559

15 January Elizabeth I is crowned at Westminster Abbey

1564

26 April William Shakespeare is baptised at the Holy Trinity Parish Church in Stratford

1566

19 June Mary, Queen of Scots gives birth to Prince James of Scotland (later James I of England)

1580

26 September Sir Francis Drake returns to England aboard the Golden Hinde, after having circumnavigated the globe

1587

8 February Mary, Queen of Scots is executed at Fotheringhay Castle

1588

July–August The Spanish Armada

4 September Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, dies

1603

24 March Death of Elizabeth I and accession of James I

3 DAYS

Friday

Full day at Hampton Court Palace

Evening visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum

Saturday

Jewel Tower

Westminster Abbey

St Margaret’s Church

National Portrait Gallery

Sunday

All Hallows by the Tower

Tower of London/Tower Hill

Southwark Cathedral

5 DAYS

Monday

Hampton Court Palace

Tuesday

Eltham Palace & Gardens

Victoria and Albert Museum

Wednesday

All Hallows by the Tower

Tower of London/Tower Hill

St Magnus the Martyr

Southwark Cathedral

Thursday

Guildhall

Sutton House

The British Library

Friday

Jewel Tower

Westminster Abbey

St Margaret’s Church

National Portrait Gallery

The British Museum

7 DAYS

Monday

Eltham Palace & Gardens

Victoria and Albert Museum

Tuesday

All Hallows by the Tower

Tower of London/Tower Hill

St Magnus the Martyr

Southwark Cathedral

Wednesday

Guided tour of Lambeth Palace

The Garden Museum

Tate Britain

Thursday

Guildhall

Sutton House

The British Library

Friday

Jewel Tower

Westminster Abbey

St Margaret’s Church

National Portrait Gallery

The British Museum

Saturday

Guided tour of the Museum of the Order of St John

Guided tour of the Charterhouse

Museum of London

Sunday

Hampton Court Palace

10 DAYS

Monday

Eltham Palace & Gardens

Victoria and Albert Museum

Tuesday

All Hallows by the Tower

Tower of London/Tower Hill

St Magnus the Martyr

Southwark Cathedral

Wednesday

Guided tour of Lambeth Palace

The Garden Museum

Tate Britain

Thursday

Guildhall

Sutton House

The British Library

Friday

Jewel Tower

Westminster Abbey

St Margaret’s Church

National Portrait Gallery

Saturday

Guided tour of the Museum of the Order of St John

Guided tour of the Charterhouse

Museum of London

Sunday

Hampton Court Palace

Monday

The National Archives

Fulham Palace

Chelsea Old Church

Tuesday

A walk around the precincts of Lincoln’s Inn – guided tours are on hold until January 2018

London Church’s Walk – St Dunstan-in-the-West, St Etheldreda’s, St Bartholomew the Great, Christchurch Greyfriars Church Garden, St Helen’s, Bishopsgate and St Olave’s

Wednesday

Guided tour of the Houses of Parliament, only available on weekdays during parliamentary recesses

The British Museum