Saint Bartholomew-the-Less

This palm is situated in the floor of Saint Bartholomew-the-Less. It's in the heart of London, between St Paul, Barbican and Farringdon. St Bartholomew-the-Less, which have this suffix to distinguish it from St Bartholomew the Great, is located in the Henry VIII Gate entrance to St Bartholomew Hospital.

This small Anglican church was establish in 1543, in the same place where one of the Chapels of the medieval hospital, the Chapel of Holy Cross (founded nearly 1123), was located. 

In this year, St Bartholomew-the-Less changed its name and became the parish church for the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, the patients and the hospital's staff.

The church was rebuilt in 1823 and the works lasted two years. Nowadays, only the tower with two of its three bells, dating from 1380 and 1420, and the west wall remain from the medieval chapel.

This church was founded before the dissolution of the monasteries, and became a separated parish in 1547. The church was bombed during the London Blitz of World War II and was reopened in 1951.

St Bartholomew-the-Less is an unique church. It has a dual role as a Parish Church and a Hospital Chapel. It's open from Sunday to Thursday, from 10.00 to 15.00.