The Jubilee City churches walk

There is a rare opportunity to walk around churches not normally open to the public as more than 40 take part in the on-going London String of Pearls Golden Jubilee Festival.

It offers a unique opportunity to explore almost all of the surviving City churches designed by Britain's most famous architect, Sir Christopher Wren, as well as six of those which survived the Great Fire of 1666.

Walkers can register from 10am at the church of St Margaret Pattens, Eastcheap (Monument Tube) and at St Selpuchre-without-Newgate, Holborn (Farringdon/St Paul's Tube) on Saturday 8. The registration pack will include a map with information about the opening times of the churches to enable walkers to make their own way to each one.

There will also be a number of guided tours should participants prefer, led by members of the City of London Guide Lecturers' Association. The tours will leave both churches at 10.30, 10.45 and at noon. Details of the itineraries will be provided in the registration pack.

The City Churches Walk will give visitors the opportunity to see these churches at one time, which also offer wonderful collections of art and architecture spanning the past 875 years and include work by Henry Moore, Jacob Epstein, Grinling Gibbons and Nicholas Hawksmoor. Some of the churches have also be used as locations in films such as Shakespeare In Love and Four Weddings And A Funeral.

This is not intended to be a mass procession and participants are encouraged to choose their own route and make their own choice of which churches to visit.

The City Churches Walk
Meet at 10am at St Margaret Pattens, Eastcheap (Monument Tube) or at St. Selpuchre-without-Newgate, Holborn (Farringdon/St Paul's Tube) on Saturday 8
Guided tours from both churches at 10.30, 10.45 and at noon.
Cost:
Members of the Friends - with packed lunch, £9 for the day
Members of the Friends - no packed lunch, £5
Non-members - with packed lunch, £11 for the day
Non-members - with no packed lunch, £7

More information: 020 7626 1555 / www.london-city-churches.org.uk