All Hallows by the Tower

Byward Street
London
City of London
EC3R 5BJ
England

Website

www.ahbtt.org.uk

E-mail

General Information

parish@ahbtt.org.uk

Museum Enquiries

helen@ahbtt.org.uk

Telephone

020 7481 2928

Fax

020 7481 2928

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
All Hallows by the Tower
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All Hallows by the Tower was founded in 675AD and a Saxon arch from the original church remains. Located next to the Tower of London, the church has dealt with numerous beheaded bodies, including those of Thomas More, John Fisher and Archbishop Laud. Samuel Pepys watched the Great Fire of London from the tower of the church. Wiliam Penn was baptised in the church and John Quincy Adams was married here. The church was badly bombed in the blitz and 'Tubby' Clayton, Vicar at All Hallows and founder of Toc H, oversaw the rebuilding. All Hallows has an active education programme, offers historic guided tours and has a brass rubbing centre.

Venue Type:

Sacred space

 Opening hours

Mon-Sat 9.00-17.00 and Sun 11.00-13.00
Open all year

 Admission charges

Free

 General services and facilities
  • Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
  • Foreign language audio guide available
  • Guided tours
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Gardens open to public
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Activities for pre-school children
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
 Disability access
  • Audio guides specifically for blind and partially sighted people
  • Large print information and/or interpretation
  • Touch exhibits
  • Toilets for disabled
 Schools services and facilities
  • Direct teaching services for schools
  • Member of staff available with responsibility for education
  • Primary school education service available
  • Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
  • Secondary school education service available
  • Education facilities available
  • Reception and lunch facilities for educational groups
 Commercial and hire services
  • Facilities for private functions and events
  • Meeting room available

Byward Street
London
City of London
EC3R 5BJ
England

Website

www.ahbtt.org.uk

E-mail

General Information

parish@ahbtt.org.uk

Museum Enquiries

helen@ahbtt.org.uk

Telephone

020 7481 2928

Fax

020 7481 2928

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Includes Roman and Saxon artefacts from Tower Hill and the surrounding area. Collections of historical objects and records from All Hallows by the Tower and St Dunstans in the East. The Crypt Musuem located in the Undercroft of All Hallows by the Tower also has a range of fascinating obects, including Shackleton's crows nest, model ships and a Knights Templar altar.

Collection details

Religion, Maritime, Archives, Archaeology

Key artists and exhibits

  • Grinling Gibbons font cover
  • Tate Panel
  • Last Supper painting
  • Roman and Saxon artefacts
  • Shackletons crows nest
  • Knights Templar altar
  • Model ships
  • Toc H and Tubby Clayton artefacts

Collections services

  • Public access available to collections information

Byward Street
London
City of London
EC3R 5BJ
England

Website

www.ahbtt.org.uk

E-mail

General Information

parish@ahbtt.org.uk

Museum Enquiries

helen@ahbtt.org.uk

Telephone

020 7481 2928

Fax

020 7481 2928

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.
 Face to face resources

The Art of All Hallows Workshop

http://www.allhallowsbythetower.org.uk/EDUCATION%20LEAFLET.pdf

Children will discover how artists and craftspeople have enhanced the All Hallows building, how it is cared for, and how it functions as a place of worship. They will make observational drawings, investigating the visual and tactile qualities of the building. Clergy will explain the meanings of the signs and symbols in the church, looking at the tower, chapels, pulpit, font, pews, aisles and altar and decorative characteristics such as carvings, statuary, decorative brickwork, arches and stained glass.
Practical work includes a choice of: stained glass window decorating, textile design, block printing or making relief panels from air-drying clay.

How to obtain

Please contact Helen Elletson, the Education Officer to reserve your preferred date(s) on 020 7481 2928 or helen@ahbtt.org.uk for further information and to make a booking. You are welcome to make a preliminary visit to All Hallows before bringing your pupils. We will be pleased to discuss your class‘s individual needs. Recommended donation of £1 per child, accompanying adults are free of charge.

 Resources

The History of All Hallows Workshop

http://www.allhallowsbythetower.org.uk/EDUCATION%20LEAFLET.pdf

Children will discover All Hallows and its key features as a local history case study, analyzing the church through Roman, Saxon, Medieval, Victorian and present day periods.
They will study resources such as copies of archival records, quotations from parish books, the census, maps, and pictures of All Hallows pre- and post- bombing.
They will examine the church’s responsibilities to its community, such as giving money to the poor, the importance of the collection and its use as a place of worship.
This workshop includes a practical activity based on the medieval brasses or mosaics.

How to obtain

Please contact Helen Elletson, the Education Officer to reserve your preferred date(s) on 020 7481 2928 or helen@ahbtt.org.uk for further information and to make a booking. You are welcome to make a preliminary visit to All Hallows before bringing your pupils. We will be pleased to discuss your class‘s individual needs. Recommended donation of £1 per child, accompanying adults are free of charge.

Byward Street
London
City of London
EC3R 5BJ
England

Website

www.ahbtt.org.uk

E-mail

General Information

parish@ahbtt.org.uk

Museum Enquiries

helen@ahbtt.org.uk

Telephone

020 7481 2928

Fax

020 7481 2928

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Related teaching activities

Key stage 2 art and design, 1-2 lessons

Investigating and making art, craft and design

Investigate All Hallows by the Tower by drawing the internal features of the church. What do the different symbols used in the interior architecture represent?

Key stage 2 English, 1 lesson

En3 Writing

Pick two objects that you see around All Hallows. Find out when they were used, who used them and what for. Then write two short diary entries from the point of view of your objects imagining something that happened at All Hallows that they might have witnessed.

Key stage 2 history, 1 lesson

Historical interpretation

All Hallows by the Tower is a historic place of worship that was bombed during World War II. Look at images of All Hallows by the Tower and make observational drawings to show the way the church looked before and after its reconstruction.

Key stage 2 history, 1 lesson

Organisation and communication

The remains of a Saxon arch can be seen at All Hallows by the Tower. Draw its main features.

Key stage 2 maths, 1 lesson

Ma2 Number

Using the internet to help you, create a tally chart to represent the different places of worship in your local area.