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Originally Posted by lio45
So, ONE of them has a tiny minority of its parts that are over a thousand years old, all the rest are 900-something years old at most
There’s some 1,000+ year old stuff in Britain (link below), but in London, for obvious reasons, almost nothing has survived.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angl...n_architecture
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Actually two of them if you count the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London, which as mentioned, predates the castle. But point being, there are ALOT of old churches.
Technically St Bride's has a claim to the oldest church/ place of worship despite only dating from the Great Fire, in terms of name it stretches back to the 6th century, and the building before the fire was 7th century. Site-wise it was a place of worship for 2,000 years:
https://www.britainexpress.com/attra...ttraction=1590
"St Brides can claim with some justification to be one of the oldest sites of worship in Britain. Shortly after the Roman invasion of 43 AD they erected a building on the site, and remains of mosaic suggest it was a temple of some kind. In the early 6th century a small stone church was built here by the Irish abbess St Bride, or perhaps by some of her followers. This church was rebuilt and enlarged several times over the next 5 centuries."