London - St John's Gate Church & Museum

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St John's Gate Church & Museum Description

St John's Gate was originally the main entrance to a priory of the order of St John of Jerusalem (the Knights Hospitallers). Dating from 1504, it, plus the 12th C crypt and large parts of the church, are the most obvious remains of the priory. The rooms in the gateway are now the headquarters of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, and contain the Museum of the Order of St John.

The order, founded in Jerusalem in the 11th C, and later based successively in Cyprus, Rhodes and Malta, came to England in the 12th C and built a priory in London in the 1140s. The order was suppressed in England in 1540. A move to revive the Priory in the 19th C resulted in the formation of the Order of St John, made a Royal Order of

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Hobbies & Activities category: Armaments collection; Town walls, fortifications, gates; Historical museum; Architecture - Medieval; Christian sites; Architecture - Renaissance

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Museum of The Order of St John
St John's Gate, St John's Lane
London EC1M 4BU
United Kingdom

http://www.sja.org.uk/sja/about-us/our-museum/visit-us.aspx

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