St John's Gate (London)

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St John's Gate is one of the few tangible remains from Clerkenwell's monastic past, it was built in 1504 by Prior Thomas Docwra as the south entrance to the inner precinct of the Priory of the Knights of Saint John - the Knights Hospitallers.

The substructure is of brick, the north and south façades of stone. After centuries of decay and much rebuilding, very little of the stone facing is original; heavily restored in the 19th century, the gate today is in large part a Victorian recreation, the handiwork of a succession of architects — W. P. Griffiths, R. Norman Shaw, and J. Oldrid Scott.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John's_Gate
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Coordinates:   51°31'19"N   -0°6'9"E
This article was last modified 13 years ago