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Not every statue in London. The ones worth crossing the road for: Roman wall, medieval ruins, and the monuments that earn a detour.
A thirteenth-century church door with a Tudor house on top, found under the plaster by a Zeppelin.
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The arch was the west door of the nave of St Bartholomew-the-Great, built in the 1240s. When the nave came down at the Dissolution the arch stayed as a gate and a timber-framed house went up on it in 1595. The house was faced with tiles and plaster for centuries, and it was a Zeppelin bomb on Smithfield in 1916 that shook the covering off and showed what was underneath. Through the gate is the church itself, begun in 1123, the oldest parish church in London and the one that feels it.
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