St Bartholomew's Gatehouse

You are approaching St Bartholomew's Gatehouse, a rare survivor of Tudor London that sits in the City of London as a gateway to the Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great. The structure is built directly above a thirteenth-century stone archway that once served as the southern entrance to the original monastic nave. The timber-framed house you see today was added in fifteen ninety-five by a local resident named William Scudamore. It stands as a physical bridge between the medieval history of the priory and the timber architecture that defined much of the city before the Great Fire of London.