St. Bartholomew the Less
¶Location
St. Bartholomew the Less was located in West Smithfield, on the south east side of the open field. Prockter and Taylor identify it with the
church marked
32on the map (Prockter 47). It was built and still stands inside the grounds the St. Bartholomew’s Hospital (colloquially known as
Bart’s).
¶Etymology
Before the Dissolution, the church was the chapel of Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital, located on the precinct of the hospital. In 1521, Richard Arnold’s Chronicle called it
The chapell wythin Bartholomew Spitell(qtd. in Harben). The function and name of the chapel was changed by royal order in 1547, at which point the chapel became the church of
St. Bartholomew the Little(qtd. in Harben).
Littlewas a disambiguator that distinguished the new parish church from the nearby St. Bartholomew the Great.
¶Literary Significance
Literary figures buried in this church include John Lyly (1553–1606), author of Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and His England (1580), whose eponymous hero gave rise to a fashion for
Euphuism.Lyly’s eight surviving plays for the boy companies of the 1580s and 1590s include Gallathea (1592). Also buried here is Thomas Bodley (1545-1613), who founded the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford and famously excluded plays from his collection.
¶Post-Fire History
Being outside the city walls, the church was not damaged in the Great Fire. It is one of the few churches in London where one can still view medieval bells in a late medieval bell tower. To visit St. Bartholomew the Less today, enter the grounds of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital through the main entrance (the Henry VIII gate) in West Smithfield.
¶Links
Further Reading and Links of Interest:
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Walter Thornbury on The Churches of Bartholomew-The-Great and Bartholomew-The-Less (1878), available courtesy of BHO: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol2/pp351-359.
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St. Bartholomew the Great website, with page on St. Bartholomew the Less: https://www.greatstbarts.com/about/st-barts-the-less/
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Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks website: https://londonparishclerks.smugmug.com/Parishes-Churches/Individual-Parish-Info/St-Bartholomew-the-Less
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Friends of the City Churches: http://www.london-city-churches.org.uk/Churches/StBartholomewtheLess/index.html
References
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Harben, Henry A. A Dictionary of London. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918. [Available digitally from British History Online: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/dictionary-of-london.]This item is cited in the following documents:
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Prockter, Adrian, and Robert Taylor, comps. The A to Z of Elizabethan London. London: Guildhall Library, 1979. Print. [This volume is our primary source for identifying and naming map locations.]This item is cited in the following documents:
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St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
According to Stow, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital was located on the west side of Smithfield in Farringdon Without Ward. Originally a religious hospital, it was founded by its first prior, Rahere, in 1102 (Stow 1598, sig. X1r). It was dissolved under Henry VIII and reendowed and granted to the City of London in 1544 as a part of the civic hospital system.St. Bartholomew’s Hospital is mentioned in the following documents:
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Smithfield
Smithfield was an open, grassy area located outside the Wall. Because of its location close to the city centre, Smithfield was used as a site for markets, tournaments, and public executions. From 1123 to 1855, the Bartholomew’s Fair took place at Smithfield (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 842).Smithfield is mentioned in the following documents:
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St. Bartholomew the Great
St. Bartholomew the Great was a church in Farringdon Without Ward on the south side of Long Lane, Smithfield. It was made a parish church at the Dissolution of the Monasteries and was declared a gift to the citizens of Londonfor relieving of the Poore
in 1546 (Stow 1633, sig. 2N5r). Under Mary I, the site and building were given to the Dominican order to be used as Blackfriars, St. Bartholomew’s before being restored under Elizabeth I.St. Bartholomew the Great is mentioned in the following documents:
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Variant spellings
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Documents using the spelling
Little St. Bartholomew’s Church and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
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Documents using the spelling
S. Bartlemew the Hoſpitall
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Saint Bartholamews the little
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St. Bartholomew the Less
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St. Bartholomew the Little