The City's most Special Place | City of London Churches Part 4 (4K)

[@davidbeatts6036]

Hi John...David Here, sorry to have interrupted your piece to camera @7:45. I could see myself walking up in the shot before...quite surreal! I had a great walk that day, Whitechapel to Wapping, hopped across the river via the Brunel tunnel to Rotherhithe. A beer at the Mayflower watching the mud larkers on the Thames. Then off to The George in Borough. Thru the busy market, across the London bridge and down Ludgate Hill where we met. Quick stop at the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese (amazing) then started the yomp to The Spaniards Inn in Hampstead via the Fleet (kind of). Well, I got to King Cross and thought the Spaniards could wait for another day in my quest to visit the top 30 (or so) oldest pubs in London. My final destination was the Betjeman Arms in St Pancras station (not on the old London pub list!!) for a Camden pale ale, but, there is an outdoor seating area where i could spend hours viewing the amazing, cavernous, cathedral to steam. Hope to bump into you again sometime. Thanks

[@AliBees]

It’s David! Hello David!

[@h.bsfaithfulservant4136]

You’ve done well to remember your walk in detail David , considering all the public house breaks 😉😊👍

[@davidbeatts6036]

Wow....would you believe it!! I stopped off at St Swithun's church garden on my walk!!

[@davidbeatts6036]

@@h.bsfaithfulservant4136 I take my responsibilities seriously!!

[@h.bsfaithfulservant4136]

@@davidbeatts6036 Absolutely, it’s essential to stay well hydrated on long walks 😁

[@MeTheRob]

Something I loved about City churches was the number of free lunchtime concerts and recitals that I would find out about via noticeboards, the Evening Standard or just stumble across while I was out exploring. Once I looked into a church to find a Bach cantata about to start - harpsichord , singers, players the lot. Amazing.

[@Steveoaudioandstuff]

Brilliant. It's Sunday evening, and a box-fresh John Rogers masterpiece has landed. Diving in now...

[@ASKpq]

There’s a real kindness, sincerity and warmth to these videos John. We need more of that right now. Thanks for making them.

[@Slycockney]

Thank you John, I love your passion, enthusiasm and most of all your knowledge.

[@AliBees]

These walks have a magical feeling, with little alleyways tucked away here and there, and the beautiful architecture. I prefer this London to the modern hustle and bustle. Another fantastic video John!

[@helenfawcett9685]

I'm so lucky to have been able to go in so many of the City churches- husband played lunchtime recitals (me the page turner), and I've also played concerts in several of them. Love your walks, even though they make me miss living in London!

[@Cillaron]

Always look forward to your walk videos, in the 1970’s and 1980’s I was stationed in England with the American Air Force. I would take the train to London on the weekends and walk around looking at some of the very churches and hidden gems that you show, you are now giving me the stories behind the landmarks, can’t thank you enough… My favorite place to walk was always Kew Gardens, it was always peaceful and not to many tourists….

[@Fourleafclover9]

Spring is in the air 🌷 thankyou

[@CaratacusAD]

Wonderful video John, this series is one of my favourites. Major nostalgia from lunch time wanders during my city days :)

[@johnno49]

Think of ‘cathedral’ as an adjective. St Paul’s is the cathedral church of London, in that it contains the cathedra, which is the bishop’s chair. So yes, St Paul’s is definitely a church. Another fascinating video, John.

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Many thanks for the info John

[@johnno49]

@@JohnRogersWalks I love videos like yours. I’ve been to London three times and I’d love to see more of this endlessly fascinating city. Last time I was there, in 2017, I was lucky enough to stay in very cheap accommodation in Mount St. I could look out my window to the Connaught Hotel across the road and think how very much more they were paying each night. More importantly it wasn’t far from the Green Park tube station so I could wander far and wide.

[@janebaker966]

I love going in an ancient church and finding there is a music rehearsal going on. I once sat in Bath Abbey with a choir rehearsing their evening concert and the rehearsal was almost as good as the actual event. Also one time,in Axbridge church Somerset it was organised practice and the rolling,booming music me the visit almost a psychedelic experience.

[@highpath4776]

I went to Ireland and somehow managed to gatecrash a funeral , and a wedding just passing churches in the villiages I went to searching for some irish roots.

[@jazmo6662]

I worked in the Faraday Building in 1973, when it used to be a telephone exchange.

[@clair233]

I live in this area. I have been here 8 years. I am forever obsessed. I feel like a tourist most days. I really enjoy your videos, there's so much history and you often bring up things I didn't know! And then I go look at it closer 😄 thank you for sharing

[@bakerloobadboy]

Thank heavens for Sunday night and John Rogers, makes the week worth while. A suggestion for a walk, London's markets. Not necessarily the big ones, but the smaller, often quirky ones like Brink Lane, Columbia road etc

[@peterhaigh2223]

John, I have only just found your KZbin videos,don’t know where I have been for the last few years. I am so glad to have found them. I worked most of my career in the city at all of the telephone exchanges. Baynard House was an international exchange and used to house a telephone museum. Watching your walk around this area made me realise just how much it has changed in the last 30 years. Thank you for what you are doing and the best thing is I have hundreds of hours to catch up on.

[@sallypassmore8748]

That was absolutely brilliant John. Took me right back to my work days with BT International. Holborn Centre at Holborn Circus was our HQ, the memorial hall in Farringdon road was known back in the day as Caroone House Faraday Building was a major International exchange and Baynard House used to be the home of the BT technology showcase (museum). Superb walk and thank you. 😊

[@IanDDalton]

I think that St Dunstan's in the East is my favourite church, only because I am a country yokel, and when I was in the city, that church reminded me of being in the country, great video. thoroughly enjoying this series :)

[@clair233]

Inside St Benet's has a medieval feel. I love it.

[@andrewwood9635]

Thanks for another great walk around the City of London, its been one of my favourite places to visit for nigh on 50 years. A good source for opening times of city churches is the website of The Friends of City Churches. As I have mentioned (ad nauseum?) before, my website London Churches in photographs has interior shots of all of them.

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Thanks for the info Andrew

[@KimberlySays...]

London is #1 on my list of places to visit before I die. I hope I make it one day. Until then, I'll just binge watch this channel.

[@lindasueanderson8191]

what a perfect walk on the first day of spring! If I ever get to the city, again I must find that beautiful garden. It looks as moving & restorative as my favorite hidden place St. Dunstan in the East.

[@vermeerofdelftscotlandwalk3294]

Very interesting history of these churches. 👍

[@TelBil2010]

Something very magical about London churches

[@RubbishGimpy]

I need to start visiting some of these. There's nothing I like more than stumbling upon sculptures and discreet green spaces amongst oppressive urban concrete. Thanks for showing us these. I have a walk idea. - Its either right up your street or too minimal/bland to do. Its somewhere I haven't visited for 32yrs and I vow to rid there this summer, I always pass it by. Its a relatively short walk, has history across millennia (1), contrasting landscapes, modern day gems and migration of peoples (which connects it to North East London). . . . . Canvey Island.

[@treehouse3240]

Thankyou John, I love all the old Churches of England .

[@MrNas42]

That was simply glorious John. I always find a stroll through the City of London to be an uplifting experience.

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Thanks Nigel

[@John_C-ng9eu]

Absolutely loving this walking tour of London's churches! The details and history you share are fascinating. Keep it coming!

[@ken.r.vessey2047]

having worked in the City during the 1980's for 20 plus years your walks are a joy - i have walked those same places many a lunchbreak - loving it - wait until you move down Eastcheap and beyond to the Tower

[@littleacornslandscapes2935]

Thanks John.

[@michaelessig6376]

I love how timeless these videos are. highest quality throughout. I often look back and try to guess when the video was made. I always guess wrong. thank you so much for adding to my meditative discipline.

[@TheJericson01]

Thank you for this.. I'm an American who will be in London in March. St Andrew's is one of our destinations.

[@patriciadodman1284]

Thanks again John from Sydney

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Cheers Patricia- hope all is well in Sydney

[@ralphwinter6421]

Thanks John, great mystical London walk - Cheers mate...

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Cheers Ralph

[@stephenbannister9869]

Absolutely magnificent John, many many thanks for this.

[@nocomment4642]

That was a great walk ! Jam packed with fab places and loads of info. Thanks so much ! so enjoyable

[@harishk4033]

Grata video. “The spirits of the churches”….really got a sense of that watching the video.

[@malcolmrichardson3881]

Another great exploration of hidden byways in the City, with an informed narrative and much to delight the eye. Thank you.

[@Suho1004]

I love these church walks, too. I hope to some day be able to retrace your steps. Thanks so much, John!

[@jenniferlevine5406]

Very special walk, such beautiful spots you take us to!

[@damedavidfrith55]

Thanks for another lovely trip around London as always a visual and historical feast

[@samulihirsi]

You are really touched by that place.... As one should be.....

[@elizabethhammond5545]

Thank you for once again for taking me on a magical walk of the City of London.

[@mostlyindica]

Thanks John, was another great walk. Have a good week too :)

[@David-ns5sp]

Hi John, brilliant video as ever. Thank you for making them, they are a major part of my week! As others have mentioned, Baynard Hse was and still is a BT building. I worked there for several years when BT ran the old Prestel network (a forerunner of the internet in some ways). We also ran the main switch for the LINK network of ATMs for the banks, I.e. all atm transactions went through there for the LINK service (nationwide, abbey national, coop, girobank, alliance & Leicester, etc). There are also two telephone exchanges in the building and best of all a series of tunnels that run under the Thames and down to Westminster exchanges. The Rising Sun pub you filmed was our Friday lunch drinking venue, drinking at work?? Different world then. Addle Hill has been filmed in lots of period dramas and movies/tv as it is quiet on weekends and the architecture is perfect as a backdrop. There’s a Dom Jolly sketch where about 50 people dressed in (I think) dog costumes come running round the corner as unsuspecting members of the public are half way up, causing them to (not unreasonably) turn and run away.

[@humble4533]

Thanks John for another very interesting video, beautifully shot and described in your inimitable way . Looking forward to your next video with anticipation. Have a great week

[@neilboulton9813]

Great walk John thoroughly enjoyed the history and the back stories to the interesting spots you find. It is a mystery to me why the City is not more of a tourist mecca. They seem in the main to go to the Tower of London/Bridge, St Paul’s and then head back west. However it does mean it is far more of a peaceful amble and with your videos and the guides books you reference (Peter Ackroyds London books are also excellent) you can enjoy it so much more at the weekend.

[@TXMEDRGR]

Your walks always bring out the magic, mystery and beauty of London and its suburbs. I look forward to your next walk. Please consider walking Oxford.

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Many thanks- filmed a walk around Oxford last week, so that’ll be the next video. It was a great day

[@TXMEDRGR]

@@JohnRogersWalks Wow, what are the odds? Ask and you shall receive I guess. Thanks.

[@hArtyTruffle]

Those beautiful flowering trees at the St. Swithins spot, look like Camellias. I’ll have to go sit there some time. Thanks for another good’un John 👍🏼

[@CthulhuInc]

that was a great walk, john! i'm going to have to string all four church walks together in a single viewing session - perfect for a winter viewing!

[@indirarimkeit6644]

Hi John, love these videos. Many years ago (1989?) I found St. Benet's Paul's Wharf, where Delarivier Manley is buried (I was researching her life). It was open! I went in and attended a tiny service. They told me that Sir Christopher Wren made that church his headquarters when he was restoring St. Paul's.

[@LidiaHernandez-f4g]

Thank you. Just Lovely.

[@alkistis-irenewechsler1270]

21 03 2022 just watch this 4th, right after the part two. I did not find as yet part 1 and part 3. Thank you so much! Greetings from Vienna.

[@2Sugarbears]

I so love your travels though the inner city of London. I have been to every church there. They were almost always built on previous religious sights, so I think it it safe to suppose that they were attempting to either take control of the power of the site or negate it. Much of that area has been greatly changed since I was there in the 90's but when you show a shot of a church I can use that as a frame of reference. Thanks for your vlogs John, they help me keep (some) sanity in our mad mad world.

[@ashleysgaze]

An awesome walk, John! Very much looking forward to Part V. 👍

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Cheers Ashley

[@frankdonato5724]

Hi . Great video today thanks . I’m going to request a walk I asked for before a while back and that’s The Temple and Lincoln’s Inn . Thanks and cheers

[@Ben_Mdws]

Lovely work John - and what a contrast to the peninsula walk last week!

[@SMILEVIDEOTRAINS]

breakfast 4.30am accompanied by your presentation. great way to start my day. thank you,

[@JohnRogersWalks]

My pleasure Smile

[@suziedebolt6619]

I just enjoy and love what you do

[@jacksomb1]

So many amazing stories linked to places I know so well through my time working in London - BTW, Baynard House used to be a BT office

[@peterdane8389]

John, I feel you missed one of the hidden churches - St Etheldreda’s in Ely Place, always open and missed by so many. Peter Dane

[@JohnRogersWalks]

It’s in my Little Italy video Peter, although it was shut at the time due to the restrictions in place last year

[@GeorgeChoy]

Very interesting and entertaining, thanks

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Thanks George

[@overthetopblues]

A perfect way to cap off the weekend. Thanks, John for another fantastic look at more of London’s churches. Cheers!

[@ip5799]

Another brilliant video, so many people appreciate your work John. Thank you

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Cheers I P

[@ianmaddams9577]

What a wonderful city walk

[@andymurphy661]

Magical . Very good 😊 as always

[@carlbyronrodgers]

Very enjoyable.Thank you.

[@daveconyard8946]

Thank You John, Keep Well and Safe.👍

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Cheers Dave

[@Wayner71]

This is beautiful stuff. Just imagine the splendour of that locale if The Great Fire and The Blitz had never happened. But then again, we would have no Wren churches or his St Paul's in that scenario. Maybe just leave The Blitz out. Cheers John.

[@harrypascoe2120]

Thank you once again

[@barrytcook1]

Baynard house was a BT switching center..... I worked there for a short period in the 1980's

[@florbernales]

Ohhh such a wonderful video. Thanks. I lived for seven years in London, a very long long time ago...it´s such a beautiful city, I cry every time I remember it.

[@grogalot2]

Thanks for sharing your wonderful walks, so enjoyable and informative. Please don't stop

[@alandyer910]

A lovely walk. Thank you for all your insights and tales. Greetings from Alberta, Canada. I look forward to your next walk … wherever that may be!

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Cheers Alan

[@highpath4776]

Some of the churches are covered by a Friends of London Churches group, and the people rotate during the week around different churches and you can pick up a leaflet with the days and times they will be open other than service times. Some churches are associated with certain national/international mission groups or charities and specialise in music, care , outreach, biblical studies and so on.

[@tonywalker5681]

Can I say I miss London? (I just did) Only been once, though. A place that if I ever moved back to England, London Town, Would be a place to live. Good film, John!

[@MGeofire]

I love watching your walks and listening to your commentary. I can see the streets, likely travelled by my ancestors centuries ago.

[@vanburen1981]

Lovely to see Baynard House and St Andrew's by the Wardrobe featured on your walk. My Dad worked at Baynard House in the 80s and it brought back lots of memories. The statue of Christ in front of the church and the Seven ages totem used to freak me out no end.

[@rubytuesday6515]

And once again... wonderful 🌻. Thank you

[@lizwilliams14]

All the Wren churches are gorgeous. I used to work in an office on the Strand right beside St Clement Danes. It’s absolutely beautiful inside but I was in my early 20s then and looking inside glorious historic churches was far from my thoughts back then.

[@TheIainMay]

Thanks John for sharing, makes a great Sunday evening, always learn something new 😊

[@lizstevenson7801]

Thank you John, that was very interesting. I love the history and glad to see these places are still there amid the giant glass buildings. 💕🇦🇺

[@joshmelville7464]

Really enjoy watching the videos. Also thanks for pointing me in the direction of Iain Sinclair because of these videos I bought his book “The Last London” which has conjured up some previously unknown characters to me like the mole man of Hackney! An excellent read

[@williamrobinson7435]

Beautifully done as ever.. Cheers John! Look forward to seeing the rest of the series.. 👍

[@janicejohnson9138]

Thanks for doing these walks and videoing them, having moved away from London many years ago these walks bring back many memories for me. I have just been reading a book about Edwardian London one of the things I found really weird and macabre was that when they built Wormwood Scrubs prison is that the prisoners were used to build it both men and women. I know information about places get lost over time so many thanks you for all your hard work finding out fascinating facts about the history of London.

[@4thEyeVision]

Super vid thanks John

[@Micktyb]

Excellent Thanks 👏👏have you ever thought about walking around St Albans in Hertfordshire?? Not London but near 😁😁

[@suezelenitz1910]

St Andrew Holborn is open every weekday. There arre midday services every weekday apart from Tuesday. Open times are 09:00 to 17:00

[@howdymartin6258]

Another stunning effort -- my wish is one day to bump into you and be mentioned in a video! - keep up the good work!

[@waynehicks2035]

Sunday evening complete, thanks John.

[@buttychips]

Lovely end to the weekend brilliant

[@anthonyburn8838]

Another lovely video. Looking forward to the rest of the "church" series.

[@benedictmarshall7031]

Another wonderful walk, John. You have uncovered so many fascinating sites that I managed to overlook when I lived in London. Hoping to visit some of them before too long. Meanwhile, greetings from Tokyo.

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Many thanks Benedict

[@andrewashdown3541]

Thanks - another hole in my perforated map patched ... I agree this is a numinous place and thankfully in the City - hence tourist & Barista-free - the City blocks might even be said to protect it

[@pauthomp]

Marvellous

[@pedallinraw]

Hoop & Grapes appears to be grade two listed....good to hear....🙂👌🏻

[@jonathanmadden5112]

Another gem of a walk John. The area around Carter Lane a really interesting one, I remember way back in the mid 1970s when there was still WW2 bomb damage, if you stood in Pilgrim Street to the left of Ludgate Hill you could see across the Fleet Valley towards St Brides, Fleet Street and beyond. Thank you for a another great City perambulation.

[@Michaeluk62]

Interesting video John 👍🍹

[@waynejacksonofficial]

Your Content is always 'Cracking' Mr....

[@JohnRogersWalks]

Cheers Wayne

[@johndonald8692]

Essential viewing Rounds off the week thanks as ever