Oldest Catholic Church in London

St. Etheldreda's is the oldest Catholic church in London, built c. 1290 during the reign of Edward I. It is all that's left of the London palace of the powerful Bishops of Ely, and has hosted Edward the Black Prince as well as his brother John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, after his Savoy Palace was burned by Wat Tyler in the 1381 Peasants' Revolt.

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