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St Bartholomew-the-Great
St Bartholomew-the-Great is a location reputed to be haunted in London, GB. Its reputation comes from reported apparitions, unexplained phenomena and eyewitness accounts gathered over time.
Where is St Bartholomew-the-Great?
- Location
- London, GB
- Type
- Church / religious site
- Coordinates
- 51.519, -0.1
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Why is St Bartholomew-the-Great said to be haunted?
St Bartholomew-the-Great was founded in 1123 by Rahere, a courtier of Henry I who, according to the priory's own chronicle, survived a fever during a pilgrimage to Rome after a vision of Saint Bartholomew and built the church in gratitude. Rahere's tomb still stands within the church, and for centuries visitors and clergy have reported his figure β a monk in dark robes β seen kneeling near his own effigy or moving slowly along the Norman arches at dusk, sometimes accompanied by the smell of incense with no service underway. The church survived the Dissolution, the Great Fire of 1666, and the Blitz largely intact, and vergers over the generations have spoken of unexplained cold air pooling near the tomb and a sense of being watched from the triforium gallery above. As one 20th-century verger reportedly said, "Rahere never really left his church."
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