03 — ARTWORK
Exterior view
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COMMENTARY
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The Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great is an Anglican church in West Smithfield within the City of London. The building was founded as an Augustinian priory in 1123. It adjoins St Bartholomew's Hospital of the same foundation.
The surviving building had comprised part of a priory adjoining St Bartholomew's Hospital, but while much of the hospital survived the Dissolution of the Monasteriesappropriation of the property and possessions of English and Welsh monasteries 1536-1540 by Henry VIII. It was meant both to weaken the power of the Church and to replenish the treasury; much of the property went to the aristocracy and gentry. about half of the priory's church was ransacked before being demolished in 1543. Its navethe main interior space of a church building. It may have parallel aisles on each side, often separated from it by pillars, and is intersected by the transept, which cuts across it at the point where the choir begins. was pulled down up to the last baya vaulted division of a nave, aisle, choir, or transept along its longitudinal axis. but the crossingthe area of a church where the nave is intersected by the transept. and choirthe part of a church interior, usually raised and set apart from the rest of the church, reserved for the clergy to pray together, or for choral singing. Since Carolingian times, "choir" has been the word for the part of the central nave of the church extending over the crossing (the place where nave and transept intersect), and including the apse (a niche in the wall, roofed with a half dome) that often stands at the end of this area. survive largely intact from the Norman and later Middle Ages, enabling its continued use as a parish church.
Part of the main entrance to the church remains at West Smithfield, nowadays most easily recognisable by its half-timbered, late 16th-century, TudorAn obscure Welsh family, first recorded in 1232, that seized the English throne in 1485 by defeating the Yorkist king Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth. Lancastrian Henry VII was its first crowned representative, marrying Richard's niece Elizabeth of York and thus symbolically ending the dynastic wars of the Roses. The Tudor dynasty lasted until 1603 (death of Elizabeth I). Tudor is also the name of a transitional Late Gothic building style during the reigns of the two Henrys. It incorporates Renaissance features. frontage built on the older (13th-century) stone archThe pointed arch is widely regarded as the main identifiable feature of Gothic architecture (distinct from the round arch of the Romanesque period). The three most common Gothic arches are the Equilateral, Lancet and Tudor.. This adaptation may originally have been carried out by the Dominican friars in the 1550s, or by the post-Reformation patron of the advowson, Lord Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (1547–51). From this gatehouse to the west door of the church, the path leads along roughly where the south aisleside of a nave separated from the nave proper by a colonnade, by extension, a similar feature in the transept or choir. of the nave formerly existed. Very little trace of its monastic buildings now survive, although part of the cloisterquadrilateral enclosure surrounded by covered walkways, the centre of activity for the inhabitants of a monastery. now houses a café.
The photo shows the interior facing east.
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