Celebrate the Open House Festival with this fun and interactive walking tour about Britain's forgotten history of the Black Tudors. Learn how African and European alliances, wars and conquests shaped the journeys of four Black Tudors.

Acquired in 1532 and rebuilt in 1670 after the Great Fire, the Hall was partially destroyed in 1941 by enemy action and rebuilt in a Neo-Georgian style in 1960. The original charter, portraiture and stained glass are of particular interest.

D. E. Harrington, 1961

This Grade I Mansion House, close to St Paul's Cathedral was designed by Edward Woodroofe in 1669 and completed in 1673. The residence of successive Deans of St Pauls until the 1970's today it is the office to the Bishop of London

Edward Woodroofe, 1669

London could never have existed without the Thames. For 2000 yrs it has brought power, prestige pageantry and the plague to this great city. Hear about the role of London Bridge, mud-larking, Billingsgate, historic wharves and river tales.

London's main tourist information centre is clad in a specially manufactured system of 220 pre-finished stainless steel panels. The subtly reflective surface provides a striking counterpoint to St Paul's.

Make Architects, 2007

Situated adjacent to St. Paul’s Cathedral, our reworking of this six-storey neo-classical building has created 116,000 sq ft of high-quality office space, three levels of communal terraces and a large new garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith

Buckley Gray Yeoman, 2022

Three buildings - one concrete, one Victorian, one timber - have been designed, adapted, restored and extended by Allies and Morrison to create the compact, integrated campus of studio space that the practice calls home.

Allies and Morrison, 2003

The church was first mentioned c1080 and is the oldest of the City churches dedicated to St Mary. It became a Guild Church by virtue of the City of London (Guild Churches) Act, 1952. It is the only Wren church built in the Late Gothic style after the Great Fire of London, 1666, thanks to a bequest.

Sir Christopher Wren, 1677

Guided tours of the Triforium space to see: items from the cathedral collections including Christopher Wren’s magnificent ‘Great Model’ made in 1673; the Geometrical Staircase and the stunning view from the West Gallery.

Sir Christopher Wren, 1710

17C livery hall with courtroom and garden. Oak panelling and stained glass windows. Undamaged in WWII. Recently refurbished new rooms and air-cooling within. Selected items from the archives on display. Book binding exhibition in the Hall.

Robert Mylne, 1673

Founded by William the Conqueror's Archbishop Lanfranc in 1080 (the significant crypt survives) St Mary-le-Bow was rebuilt, notably by Wren after the Great Fire and by Laurence King in 1964 after WWII destruction. Home of Bow Bells.

Sir Christopher Wren, 1683