St. Paul's

Events at St. Paul's

• The Blitz: London at War

  Guided walk

  Recurring event

  Walk exploring the devastating effects of the German air raids bombarding the City in 1940.

   

• Ghosts of The Old City

  Guided walk

  Recurring event

  At night the ancient City is deserted and eerie. Exploring its shadowy back streets and dimly lit alleys we might be in a medieval citadel. The very street names - Aldersgate, Cloth Fair, Charterhouse, ThreadneAt night the ancient City is deserted and eerie. Exploring its shadowy back streets and dimly lit alleys we might be in a medieval citadel. The very street names - Aldersgate, Cloth Fair, Charterhouse, Threadneedle - take us far back. We're alone or are we? This is the hour when the dark figure on Newgate wall rattles his chains. We're on their trail or are they shadowing us.

   

• London's Secret Village

  Guided walk

  Recurring event

  The ancient, hidden village of Clerkenwell clings to a hiThe ancient, hidden village of Clerkenwell clings to a hillside barely a stone's throw away from St. Paul's Cathedral. Its very name - 'the clerks', or 'students', spring - is redolent of antiquity; and indeed this tiny hamlet serves up brimming draughts from the deep well of its history. Mystery plays and plague pits; riots and rookeries; bodysnatching and bombing; jousting and jesters; bloodshed and burnings; monks, murder, and medicine: Clerkenwell has a tale or two to tell.

   

• The London Walk

  Guided walk

  Recurring event

  This is the City of London Grand Tour. It gives participants an overview from St. Paul's Cathedral to the Tower of London.