An East Prospect of St. Bartholomew Hospital 1752
Details
Venue
St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, Barbican, London EC1A 9DS
Event Organisers
Sarah Bowles and Philippa Barton
Cost
Cost of the visit is £55 - plus Eventbrite booking fee
The cost of the visit includes the online lecture on Thursday 11th May
Programme
10.00am
Visit to St Bartholomew the Great
St Bartholomew the Great is the only surviving part of the Augustinian priory and is London’s oldest church. The nave was demolished at the Reformation but the Norman choir and crossing were saved to become a parish church. It remains one of London’s most atmospheric churches with a fine collection of Tudor and Jacobean monuments
11.15am
Coffee
11.45am - 1.00pm
Visit to St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum
The Hospital, founded in 1123, is the oldest in London. The site was redeveloped from 1730-59 by James Gibbs, who designed four blocks around a courtyard. The museum is housed in the north wing and tells the fascinating history of medical care over nine hundred years, with a wonderful array of original documents and artefacts. The Grand Staircase beyond still retains the great canvasses of The Good Samaritan and The Pool of Bethesda by William Hogarth painted in the late 1730s.