St Bartholomew the Great

The Charterhouse is an almshouse on a secluded 7 acre site in Smithfield, London. The chapel has been, variously, the Chapter House of a Carthusian monastery, a storage place for Henry VIII's hunting equipment, and the private chapel of a Tudor mansion. Since 1613 it has been the place of worship for the beneficiaries (called Brothers) of the charity, Sutton's Hospital, and until 1872, the boys and staff of Charterhouse school.

St Etheldreda's is the oldest Catholic church in England and one of only two remaining buildings in London from the reign of Edward I.
The church was built in 1290 by John De Kirkeby, Bishop of Ely. It is here that Shakespeare has John O'Gaunt making one of the finest speeches in the English language; ‘This blessed plot, this Earth, this realm, this England'.

One of the most striking aspects about St Martin within Ludgate's exterior is its tall, sharp leaded spire, which when seen from the lower part of Fleet Street, is a deliberate foil to the massive rounded dome of St Paul's Cathedral beyond.