. Walks in London . says Stow, and therefore in his timecalled the kings minstrel. * On his way to Rome on apilgrimage, he imagined in a vision that he was carried bya great beast having four feet and two wings to a very loftyplace, whence he saw the entrance and the horrors of thebottomless pit. From this he was rescued by a majesticpersonage, who revealed himself as St. Bartholomew, andcommanded him to build a church in his honour on a sitewhich he indicated, bidding him be under no apprehensions • Stow, p. 140. ST, BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT. i8l as to expense, for he would supply the funds. Rah
. Walks in London . says Stow, and therefore in his timecalled the kings minstrel. * On his way to Rome on apilgrimage, he imagined in a vision that he was carried bya great beast having four feet and two wings to a very loftyplace, whence he saw the entrance and the horrors of thebottomless pit. From this he was rescued by a majesticpersonage, who revealed himself as St. Bartholomew, andcommanded him to build a church in his honour on a sitewhich he indicated, bidding him be under no apprehensions • Stow, p. 140. ST, BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT. i8l as to expense, for he would supply the funds. Rahere,returning, obtained the royal sanction for his work, whichwas speedily assisted by miraculous agency, for a marvellouslight was believed to shine on the roof of the church as itarose, the blind who visited it received their sight, crippleswent away with their limbs restored, and, the hiding-placeof a choral book stolen by a Jew was marvellously died in 1143 leaving thirteen monks in his founda-. I v/.n\.«;^Qw:k Ihe Gate of St. Bartholomews. tion. The monastery was at one time one of the largestreligious houses in London, its precincts extending as far asAldersgate Street. But nothing is left now of the monasticbuildings, though part of the cloisters existed within thememory of living persons. The Priors house stood behindthe church, between it and Red Lion Passage. Built up in the old houses facing the market—whichlook little altered since they were represented in the printin which the Lord Mayor and the old Dukes are sitting l82 WALKS IN LONDON. beneath them in a kind of tent, watching the execution ofAnne Askew—is an old Gothic gateway. It is an earlyEnglish arch, with several rows of dogtooth ornamentbetween its mouldings. Through its iron gate we lookupon the blackened churchyard, with the ghastly tombs, of
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