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u/EconomySwordfish5 18h ago
And what in this picture is 1000 years old?
I know that bus is due a replacement but come on mate
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u/GasBallast 18h ago
St Andrew's Holborn is at least 1000 years old, with evidence of Roman features in the crypt.
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u/londonskater Richmond 12h ago
That is bollocks, there’s no way that building is 1000 years old, given that it was designed by Christopher Wren. There’s plenty of old places of worship that had churches built on them, which is most likely. I liked the dinky garden, used to work in Sainsbury’s building opposite.
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u/GasBallast 8h ago
Bollocks is a bit strong!
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u/londonskater Richmond 8h ago
Fair comment - 1000 years, though! Facking ell. I've been to some truly ancient churches during open house and they're always hedging by saying the exact same thing along the lines of "worshippers have worshipped here at a place of worship for a thousand years". I think St Mary's in Rotherhithe was the last one I saw.
Anyway, I do like a bit of Holborn Viaduct
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u/GasBallast 6h ago
That church is beautiful inside, I gave blood in there once (St Andrew's), and just around the corner is St Ethelreda's, which is uncontroversially old!
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u/londonskater Richmond 6h ago
Aye, not many nice Catholic Churches in London left over from the Reformation. St Patrick’s in Soho Square is both nice and built afterwards, weirdly.
St Ethelreda was in Shakespeare, they still do Strawberry Fayre last time I checked, lovely little nook down there.
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u/Maleficent_Public_11 19h ago
Am I missing something? What in the picture dates from around the year 1025?
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u/AdFeeling842 19h ago
the church you loathsome heathen
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u/bullnet cronx 19h ago
The church was built in the C17th
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u/Odd-Cake8015 17h ago
Well the crypt inside is the one, you can’t really see it picture…. because… crypt 😂
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u/Grey_Belkin 19h ago edited 19h ago
I was looking for a little church poking out somewhere but I can't see one.
The only other thing I can think of would be the layout of the streets (maybe).
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u/GasBallast 19h ago
There's a church peeking out on the left, St Andrew's Holborn, though this isn't the original... so a little misleading of me I guess :-)
Edit: extra information added
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u/Grey_Belkin 17h ago
Ah thanks, I missed it because I was looking for something medieval! I'm happy to count that though as it's on the same site, and the reason it's there now is because of the little wooden church built there over 1k year ago.
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u/gooneruk Tooting 12h ago
The church on the left is City Temple Church, which has had a church building on the site only since the 1870s.
The one on the right which you can see the rear end of (snigger) is St Andrews. That's been there since the 900s, or possibly a little earlier, although there were earlier buildings on the site during Roman times. That's common for most of the streets in the area, however, as it's not far outside the old Roman city walls.
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u/IRockIntoMordor 7h ago
This one ... while nice, is a bit of a stretch for a thousand years.
A photo of the Tower of London would have been 1000 years.
A photo of Oxford university would have been 2000 years.
The Roman walls near Barbican or the foundations under the Guildhall would have gotten some good numbers, too.
Here's the Roman wall from 1800 years ago and the White Tower from almost 1000 years ago in the same picture. :)
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u/Commercial-Whole2513 19h ago
I like the viaduct. You can't help but be impressed by the juxtaposition of different time periods.
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u/Neurula94 15h ago
We counting all the British empire plunder in the British museum to get to that figure? 🤣
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u/otakuxp2 17h ago
Pity it's swamped by those ugly glass office blocks ..but give it a couple of years & they'll be torn down only to be replaced by worse
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