This excursion will be back soon. In the meantime we’d be happy to organise a private tour for you. Please contact us on 020 7624 3978 | [email protected] to make a booking.
This excursion will be back soon. In the meantime we’d be happy to organise a private tour for you. Please contact us on 020 7624 3978 | [email protected] to make a booking.
Green Park underground station, London (Green Park exit, by the fountain)
Guided by Charlie
You’d expect the wealthy of the West End to commission the very best when they needed a new church. They didn’t disappoint. This walk presents you with gems from four of the country’s greatest architects – Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren, John Nash and James Gibb. Not to be upstaged, the Victorians added a masterpiece of high Gothic. Even Augustus Pugin – the man who brought you the Palace of Westminster – gets in on the act. Yes, high society had high standards. Or did it?
There’s a lot more than meets the eye. Just how did the richest in the land get their hands on taxpayers’ money to build their parish church from funds gathered to bring God to the poor? Why does a Catholic church dare not show its face? How come a local builder gets away with ripping off the designs of one of the era’s greatest architect? And last but not least, check out the chapel they had to close down to stop love-lorn lords betrothing themselves to local dairymaids.
Come on this walk to enjoy the highs – and the lows – of the West End’s greatest churches.
Churches of High Society takes place at TBA on TBA
To go on the Churches of High Society walk meet Charlie just outside the Green Park exit (by the fountain) of Green Park Tube.
If you can’t make the regularly scheduled, just-turn-up, public Churches of High Society walk do think about booking one as a private tour. If you go private you can have the Churches of High Society Walk – or any other London Walk – on a day and at a time that suits your convenience. We’ll tailor it to your requirements. Ring Fiona or Niamh or Peter or Mary on 020 7624 3978 or email us at [email protected] and we’ll set it up and make it happen for you. A private London Walk – they’re good value for an individual or couple and sensational value for a group – makes an ideal group or educational or birthday party or office (team-building) or club outing.
A private London Walk makes a very special, thoughtful, unusual gift. Be it a birthday or anniversary or graduation or Christmas present or whatever. Merchandise schmerchandise (gift wrapped or not) – but giving someone an experience, now that’s special. Memories make us rich.
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