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17th-century organ, supported
on magnificent carved wooden
columns, was played by both
Purcell and Handel.

p Leadenhall
Market
Whittington Ave EC3. Map 15 C2.
Tel 020 7332 1523. 1 Bank,
Monument. Open 10am–6pm Mon–
The marina of the restored St Katharine Docks Fri. See Shops and Markets p337.
7 ∑ cityoflondon.gov.uk
u St Katharine restaurants on their ground
Docks floors, and offices above. There has been a food market
The dock is worth wandering here, on the site of the Roman
E1. Map 16 E3. Tel 020 7264 5287. through after visiting the Tower forum (see pp20–21), since the
1 Tower Hill. 7 0 - = or Tower Bridge (see pp157–61). Middle Ages. Its name comes
∑ skdocks.co.uk
A weekly street food market from a lead-roofed mansion
This most central of all London’s is held here on Fridays from that stood nearby in the 14th
docks was designed by 11am to 3pm. century. Today’s ornate Victorian
Thomas Telford and opened in covered shopping precinct was
1828 on the site of St Katharine’s designed in 1881 by Sir Horace
Hospital. Commodities as i St Helen’s Jones, the architect of
diverse as tea, marble and live Bishopsgate Billingsgate fish market
turtles (turtle soup was a (see p156). Leadenhall now has
Victorian delicacy) were Great St Helen’s EC3. Map 15 C1. wine shops, cheesemongers,
unloaded here. Tel 020 7283 2231. 1 Liverpool St, florists and food shops catering
During the 19th and early Bank. Open 9:30am–12:30pm Mon– to city workers, along with
20th centuries, the docks Fri; some afternoons (phone to check). several traditional pubs and
5 10:30am, 4pm & 6pm Sun (check
flourished, but by the mid- website for weekday events). 7 wine bars. The area is busiest
20th century, cargo ships were ∑ st-helens.org.uk at breakfast and lunch time.
delivering their wares in massive At Christmas the decorated
containers. The old docks The curious appearance of this stores are an attractive sight.
became too small and new 13th-century church is due to
ones had to be built down stream. its origins as two places of
St Katharine’s closed in 1968. worship: one a parish church,
The redevelopment of the other the chapel of a long-
St Katharine’s has been one of gone nunnery next door. (The
the city’s most successful, and the medieval nuns of St Helen’s
docks now boast commercial, were notorious for their “secular
residential and entertainment kissing”.) Among its monuments
facilities, as well as a hotel is the tomb of Sir Thomas
and a marina. Old warehouse Gresham, who founded the
buildings have shops and Royal Exchange (see p151).

o St Katharine Cree
86 Leadenhall St EC3. Map 16 D1.
Tel 020 7488 4318. 1 Aldgate, Tower
Hill. Open 9:30am–4pm Mon–Fri.
Closed Aug 5 8am Tue, 1:05 Wed &
Thu ∑ sanctuaryinthecity.net
The organ at St Katharine Cree
A rare pre-Wren 17th-century
church with a medieval tower, a Lloyd’s of London
this was one of only eight
churches in the City to survive 1 Lime St EC3. Map 15 C2. Tel 020
the fire of 1666. Some of the 7327 1000. 1 Bank, Monument,
elaborate plasterwork on and Liverpool St, Aldgate. Closed to the
beneath the high ceiling of the public. ∑ lloyds.com
nave portrays the coats of arms
of the guilds, with which the Lloyd’s was founded in the late
St Helen’s Bishopsgate church has special links. The 17th century and takes its name

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