All Hallows by the Tower: The Church That Received the Beheaded

England, London · Vereinigtes Königreich · Church · Grusel 3/5

All Hallows by the Tower claims by its own tradition to have been founded as early as the seventh century, which would make it the oldest church in London.

All Hallows by the Tower claims by its own tradition to have been founded as early as the seventh century, which would make it the oldest church in London. Scholars dispute the dating, but a Saxon arch shows that a church has stood here since the early medieval period. It survived the Great Fire of London in 1666, when Samuel Pepys climbed the tower to watch the flames, but was almost destroyed by German bombing in 1940 and rededicated in 1957. Those beheaded on Tower Hill were often brought here for a first burial, among them Sir Thomas More.

For that reason the church is bound in popular memory to the executed. Tradition holds that the head of More rested here before his daughter carried it on to Canterbury. There are no classic ghost stories in the serious historical record, and most of what circulates comes from the ghost walk trade. But go down into the crypt, where a Roman mosaic from the third century still lies. The real vertigo here is not a ghost, but the thought of how many layers of London's dead you are standing on, all the way down to the city the Romans built.

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