Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #14 in London, United Kingdom

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 12.9 km
Ascend 275 m
Descend 287 m

Explore London in United Kingdom with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in London

Sight 1: Christ Church Spitalfields

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Christ Church Spitalfields is an Anglican church built between 1714 and 1729 to a design by Nicholas Hawksmoor. On Commercial Street in the East End and in today's Central London it is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, on its western border facing the City of London, it was one of the first of the so-called "Commissioners' Churches" built for the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches, which had been established by an Act of Parliament in 1711.

Wikipedia: Christ Church, Spitalfields (EN), Website, Heritage Website

1532 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 2: Duke of Wellington

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The equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington is an outdoor sculpture of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, a British soldier and statesman, located at the Royal Exchange in London. It overlooks Bank junction in the historic City of London. The sculptor was Francis Leggatt Chantrey. The statue commemorates Wellington's assistance to the City of London in ensuring that a bill was passed to allow the rebuilding of London Bridge.

Wikipedia: Equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, City of London (EN)

223 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Mansion House

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The Mansion House is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. It is a Grade I listed building. Designed by George Dance in the Palladian style, it was built primarily in the 1740s.

Wikipedia: Mansion House, London (EN), Heritage Website

311 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: No 1 Poultry

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No 1 PoultryTony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK / CC BY 2.0

No 1 Poultry is a building in the City of London, allocated to office and commercial use. It occupies the apex where the eastern ends of Poultry and Queen Victoria Street meet at Mansion House Street, the western approach to Bank junction.

Wikipedia: No 1 Poultry (EN), Heritage Website

1047 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 5: Central Criminal Court

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The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey after the street on which it stands, is a criminal court building in central London, one of several that house the Crown Court of England and Wales. The street outside follows the route of the ancient wall around the City of London, which was part of the fortification's bailey, hence the metonymic name.

Wikipedia: Old Bailey (EN), Heritage Website

362 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Goldman Sachs

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Goldman Sachs Russ London -- (Russ London) / CC BY-SA 2.5

The Daily Express Building is a Grade II* listed building located in Fleet Street in the City of London. It was designed in 1932 by Ellis and Clark to serve as the home of the Daily Express newspaper and is one of the most prominent examples of art-deco / Streamline Moderne architecture in London.

Wikipedia: Daily Express Building, London (EN), Heritage Website

607 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 7: RBS

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Child & Co. was a formerly independent private bank in the United Kingdom that was later part of the NatWest Group. The Royal Bank of Scotland incorporating Child & Co., Bankers was based at 1 Fleet Street on the western edge of the City of London, beside Temple Bar Memorial and opposite the Royal Courts of Justice. Child & Co. was authorised as a brand of The Royal Bank of Scotland by the Prudential Regulation Authority. The last remaining branch closed in June 2022, and it is no longer listed as one of the NatWest Group's brands.

Wikipedia: Child & Co. (EN), Heritage Website

750 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 8: Marconi House

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Marconi House N Chadwick / CC BY-SA 2.0

Marconi House is a Grade II listed building at 335 Strand in London.

Wikipedia: Marconi House (EN), Heritage Website

268 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Novello

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The Novello Theatre is a West End theatre on Aldwych, in the City of Westminster. It was known as the Strand Theatre between 1913 and 2005.

Wikipedia: Novello Theatre (EN), Website, Heritage Website

209 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Crown Court

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Crown Court

Crown Court Church is a Church of Scotland church in Central London.

Wikipedia: Crown Court Church (EN), Website

1155 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 11: Dominion Theatre

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The Dominion Theatre is a West End theatre and former cinema on Tottenham Court Road, close to St Giles Circus and Centre Point, in the London Borough of Camden. Planned as primarily a musical theatre, it opened in 1929, but the following year became a cinema—it hosted the London premiere of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights with Chaplin in attendance—and in 1933 after liquidation of the controlling company was sold to Gaumont cinema chain, which later became part of the Rank Organisation. It was a major premiere cinema until the 1970s, when it began to host live concerts.

Wikipedia: Dominion Theatre (EN), Website

1304 meters / 16 minutes

Sight 12: Palace Theatre

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Palace Theatre Matt May uploaded and derivative work: MrPanyGoff / CC BY 2.0

The Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster in London. Its red-brick facade dominates the west side of Cambridge Circus behind a small plaza near the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road. The Palace Theatre seats 1,400.

Wikipedia: Palace Theatre, London (EN), Website, Heritage Website

738 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 13: Our Lady of The Assumption and Saint Gregory

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The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory is a Catholic church on Warwick Street, Westminster. It is the oldest Catholic church in England. It was formerly known as the Royal Bavarian Chapel, because like several Catholic churches in London it originated as a chapel within a foreign embassy. It was built between 1789 and 1790 to the designs of Joseph Bonomi the Elder. The only surviving eighteenth-century Catholic chapel in London, it is a Grade II* listed building. The parish is now operated by the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, the British personal ordinariate for the Anglican Use within the Catholic Church.

Wikipedia: Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory (EN), Website, Heritage Website

445 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 14: Messum's

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Messum's

Messum's is an art gallery in Bury Street, St. James's, London, with a branch in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.

Wikipedia: Messum's (EN), Website

875 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 15: His Majesty's Theatre

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His Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre situated in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster, London. The building, designed by Charles J. Phipps, was constructed in 1897 for the actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who established the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) at the theatre. In the early decades of the 20th century Tree produced spectacular productions of Shakespeare and other classical works, and the theatre hosted premieres by such playwrights as Bernard Shaw, J. M. Synge and, later, Noël Coward and J. B. Priestley. Since the First World War the wide stage has made the theatre suitable for large-scale musical productions, and His Majesty's has accordingly specialised in hosting musicals. It has been home to record-setting musical theatre runs such as the First World War hit Chu Chin Chow and Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, which has run at His Majesty's since 1986, except during the COVID-19 pandemic theatre closures.

Wikipedia: His Majesty's Theatre, London (EN), Website, Heritage Website

700 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 16: Noël Coward Theatre

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The Noël Coward Theatre, formerly known as the Albery Theatre, is a West End theatre in St. Martin's Lane in the City of Westminster, London. It opened on 12 March 1903 as the New Theatre and was built by Sir Charles Wyndham behind Wyndham's Theatre which was completed in 1899. The building was designed by the architect W. G. R. Sprague with an exterior in the classical style and an interior in the Rococo style.

Wikipedia: Noël Coward Theatre (EN), Website

115 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: Duke of York's

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The Duke of York's Theatre is a West End theatre in St Martin's Lane, in the City of Westminster, London. It was built for Frank Wyatt and his wife, Violet Melnotte, who retained ownership of the theatre until her death in 1935. Designed by the architect Walter Emden, it opened on 10 September 1892 as the Trafalgar Square Theatre, and was renamed Trafalgar Theatre in 1894. The following year, it became the Duke of York's to honour the future King George V.

Wikipedia: Duke of York's Theatre (EN)

666 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 18: Benjamin Franklin House

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Benjamin Franklin House is a museum in a terraced Georgian house at 36 Craven Street, London, close to Trafalgar Square. It is the last-standing former residence of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. The house dates from c. 1730, and Franklin lived and worked there for sixteen years. The museum opened to the public on 17 January 2006. The chairman is American-British investment banker and philanthropist John Studzinski.

Wikipedia: Benjamin Franklin House (EN), Website, Heritage Website

1588 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 19: OXO Tower Wharf

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OXO Tower Wharf en:User:ChrisO / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Oxo Tower is a building with a prominent tower on the south bank of the River Thames in London. The building has mixed use as Oxo Tower Wharf containing a set of design, arts and crafts shops on the ground and first floors with two galleries, Bargehouse and gallery@oxo. The Oxo Tower Restaurant, Bar and Brasserie is on the eighth floor, which is the roof-top level with fine and casual dining. In addition to this, situated on the eighth floor is a viewing gallery open to the public. The third to seventh floors contain 78 flats owned by Redwood Housing. Much of the second floor can be hired out for events and weddings.

Wikipedia: Oxo Tower (EN)

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