Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Saturday, 23 May 2026

Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of All Hallows Barking by the Tower


Returning to the City of London the Pilgrimage now stops at a shrine that enjoyed much royal interest and patronage from the thirteenth century onwards. This was at the church of All Hallows Barking by the Tower.

My post from last year, with links to previous ones, can be seen at Marian pilgrimage - Our Lady of All Hallows Barking by the Tower

I would urge those who are interested and have the time to read the fascinating and very detailed account of the church down to 1548 from the Survey of London which is linked to in the earliest of those posts, and which I am reproducing here. The later history of the church is also given in the same volume.
  
The church is very well worth visiting for all that the fabric has suffered over the centuries.



The Tower of London and its environs in 1597
All Hallows can be seen on the extreme top left 

Image: A London Inheritance 



    
 
All Hallows from the north
The Lady Chapel with the statue and the location of the Royal Chantry probably stood where the pavement or road now run
The copper spire is a striking addition made during the post WWII restoration 

Image: Gants Hill URC

May Our Lady of All Hallows Barking by the Tower intercede for us and our intentions 

Jesu mercy, Mary pray




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