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Whitefriars Crypt

A fourteenth-century crypt behind glass at the bottom of an alley off Fleet Street.

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The Carmelites, the white friars, had a priory here from 1253 until Henry VIII dissolved it, and this vaulted undercroft was beneath the prior's lodging. It was found in 1895 being used as a coal cellar, and when the site was redeveloped in the 1980s the whole crypt was lifted onto rollers, moved aside, and put back in a glass-walled chamber under the new building. You look at it through a window at the foot of a stair off Magpie Alley, whose tiled walls tell the story of Fleet Street's printing trade.

Where
Magpie Alley, off Bouverie Street, EC4Y 8DP
Nearest station
Blackfriars · 4 min walk

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