Welcome to St Mary-le-Bow Church, London

A video exploring the work and history of St Mary-le-Bow Church, Cheapside.

[@lizzapaolia959]

Beautiful church, God bless you and your great country 🙏

[@kathypetersen4694]

hi from California... my great grandparents were married here

[@georginadownings205]

Such a beautiful Church. I've lived in London for over 30 years and never been but I'm going next week with my sister.

[@mcites]

Very beautiful church! Greetings from Brazil.

[@eyreland]

It would be nice if someone would do a 30m documentary on the 1926 BBC Bow Bells recording of the pre-1961 bells, as the 1926 bells crashed to the ground and broke into bits during the 1941 blitz. As far as I can tell, the 1926 BBC Bow Bells interval signal is one of the most widely played musical compositions ever.

[@scottleft3672]

Luvlee ol' church.

[@joyceeleanor2]

Thank you very much for this video. I imagine, you are practising ruining for the May pronation. I wish I could hear these bells. Joyce, west Vancouver, B.C.

[@Pfsif]

I can hear those bells in Florida!

[@pattravell3324]

I am trying to find where I was born in 1935. My dad always said that I was born within the sound of Bow Bells at the London Lying in hospital. There were so many at that time. Thanks Pat

[@standenberg]

The "General Lying-In Hospital" was located on the north side of Westminster Bridge Road in Lambeth (1 mile south of central London). A study was carried out in 2000 to see how far away Bow Bells could be heard, and it was estimated that the bells would have been heard up to 3 miles to the south. Lambeth would easily fall into this category in 1935. So congratulations you are indeed a true cockney.

[@JalandharShere]

@@standenberg how comes its not as loud as it used to be?

[@carolinerobertson8098]

The lying in hospital was at Lambeth on the south side of Westminster bridge. I was born thete in 1962.

[@pattravell3324]

Which London lying-In hospital is the nearest to St Mary-le-Bow church?

[@mudgebauer]

This is a beautiful old church, but it is sad they try to make a historic church look modern. That metal corpus above the altar is hideous. Should put a proper polychromed crucifix in its place and sell the metal one for scrap metal. Some of those windows look like cartoons. The entire church should have been restored to what it looked like before it was bombed .