14-06-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Go on a tour of a church crypt in Greenwich

If you fancy an evening spent wandering the brick-lined vaults of the dead, then there’s a chance this summer with tours of the crypt underneath St Alfege church in Greenwich town centre.The tours take in a brief tour of the church itself, founded on the claimed site of the murder of Alfege, Archbishop of Canterbury in April 1012. The current church replaced an older medieval building that collapsed in a bad storm, and this church was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
It was badly damaged du
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