![]() ![]() In between the two buildings is a large glass atrium that looks to be part of the open space in front of the church. Tower Place consists of two buildings forming the two sides of a V shape. Trying to take a comparison photo of the church is the only time I have been stopped taking a photo in London. ![]() The old Port of London Authority building is in the background and the buildings that once ran along the edge of Tower Hill are on the right.īeer Lane does not exist now, and the area to the south of All Hallows by the Tower is occupied by the recent development, Tower Place. The photo was probably taken from Beer Lane, a street that once ran from just in front of the church down to Lower Thames Street. My father took the following photo of All Hallows by the Tower in 1947. By the end of the war, the church was an empty shell. The area between Byward Street and the River Thames suffered very badly in the last war and All Hallows by the Tower suffered a direct hit, along with the impact of nearby explosive and incendiary bombs. There are a few locations in London where it is possible to feel very close to the earliest days of the City, one of these is the subject of today’s post, the church of All Hallows by the Tower.Īll Hallows by the Tower, or All Hallows Barking as it was known due to the original association with the Abbey of Barking in Essex who owned the land on which the first church was built-in the late 7th century, is to be found at the top of Tower Hill alongside Byward Street.
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