Join Barts Heritage in collaboration with the City of London Guides, for a special 2-hour tour of St Bartholomew's Hospital. Explore the surrounding area of the site and learn about the hospital's rich 901-year history. The tour will also take in the conservation work to rescue and rejuvenate Bart's North Wing, a Grade 1-listed building that includes the staircase decorated by William Hogarth.
This is a limited offer, we are only running these special 2-hour tours on the following dates:
Wednesday 2 October 2024
Wednesday 6 November 2024
Wednesday 4 December 2024
Thursday 2 January 2025
Meet under the statue of King Henry VIII
The first hour of the tour will explore the wider history of the hospital and the nearby surrounding area. The second hour will involve entering the North Wing of the hospital. As this is currently a building site, all visitors will be required to wear full PPE (provided), including a hi vis jacket, steel-toe capped boots and a hard hat.
Please note, this tour involves accessing a scaffolding viewing deck. There are 31 steps on the staircase to reach the deck. The paintings in the Hogarth staircase are partially obstructed by scaffolding as our Conservation Team work on them. The North Wing site is not currently wheelchair accessible and there is an age limit of 18+ to attend the tours.
The City of London Guides run separate tours of just the hospital grounds (so not covering the North Wing) on Friday afternoons. These tours have no age limit and are accessible for wheelchair users.
Barts Heritage run Conservation Tours of the North Wing most Monday - Saturdays, twice a day.
Our daily walks run from the City Information Centre, just south of St Paul's. You need to book via Eventbrite to secure you place. Note: the cut-off time for booking our daily walks is 21:00hrs the night before. If we don't have any bookings then the walk will not take place. Read our policy on Refunds. Our weekly walks have individual booking pages and earlier cut-off times, please see the individual listing.
This unique site is now open for this season of tours. Find out more.
If you'd like to organise your own walk, lecture or a virtual tour, then please use our Find a Guide section. If you're a member of an Arts Society or a U3A, a school or another group we'd love to take you on a tour of the City. Or if you're a company based in the City who'd like to organise a social event for your work colleagues, then contact one of our qualified guides, who can put together an evening walk for you.
120mins
£22.38
£18.04
