London's Oldest Parish Church: Great St. Barts

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Once connected to a busy and thriving hospital, Great St Bart's Church in Smithfield is not only a survivor of the Great Fire of London, but also has a fascinating foundation story.

In this episode of Gone Medieval, Matt Lewis goes to get a closer look at London’s oldest surviving parish church with Father Marcus Walker.

Gone Medieval is presented by Matt Lewis and edited by Ella Blaxill. The Producer is Rob Weinberg, the Senior Producer is Anne-Marie Luff.

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0:00.0	Welcome to True Spies.
0:02.0	The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.
0:08.0	Suddenly out of the dark disappear from Lavin.
0:10.0	You'll meet the people who live life under cover.
0:13.5	What do they know?
0:14.6	What are their skills?
0:15.9	And what would you do in their position?
0:18.3	Vengeance felt good.
0:19.8	Seeing these people pay for what they've done felt righteous.
0:24.6	True Spies from Spiescape Studios,
0:27.7	wherever you get your podcasts. You're going to be. Welcome to this episode of Gone Medieval, I'm Matt Lewis, a survivor of the Great Fire of
0:50.4	London. You might be forgiven for being fooled by the beautiful but deceptively unassuming
0:56.1	entrance way to Great St Bart's Church in Smithfield. Once connected to a busy and thriving hospital, it has a fascinating foundation story that just might involve a famous name, and it's seen many uses that have left marks on the building. Over 800 years old, Great St Bart's is the
1:16.1	oldest surviving parish church in London and to find out more about it I went to
1:21.1	meet Father Marcus Walker, the rector, to get a closer look at this
1:25.2	incredible space.
1:27.0	We're in St Bartholomew's The Great. It's proudly the oldest parish church still standing in London.
1:38.0	When was it founded and who? And I know I'm cheating this question slightly because we're standing in front of the two of the guy who founded it.
1:42.8	Yes that's right. Well it was founded by a man called Rahere in 1123 on March the 25th, Lady Day, which was also New Year's Day, back in the old calendar.
1:55.0	And Raheer was a courtier of King Henry I,
2:00.0	the Book of the Foundation, which was produced not very long after his death
2:05.0	talks about him being well a bit of a creep and a social climber and possibly the court jester it talks about him using japes and jests to win
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