St Thomas Street, London, SE1
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St Thomas Street, London, SE1
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 5 May 2014
The Shard tower seen from the Borough High Street end of St Thomas Street. The church-like building with the square tower is the former church (chapel) of St Thomas' Hospital (prior to that hospital's move to Lambeth). When the earlier version of St Thomas' Hospital was transferred to its present site in 1822, its operating theatre (a room) in the garret of this church was boarded up and lay undiscovered until 1956. Although it may seem strange that the hospital's operating facility was established in a church tower, access to this tower-top level operating theatre was from wards that existed on the first floor of the hospital's south wing and access was via a doorway in the north wall of the church tower's, at the same level.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.504792
Longitude
-0.088839