2-699-158 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Monastery of St. John of Jerusalem, Clerkenwell - The Gate from the West', (c1872). The Priory of St John, of the Monastic Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem, was founded in 1185 in Clerkenwell, London. It was dissolved by King Henry VIII as he claimed that the order 'maliciously and traitorously upheld the Bishop of Rome to be Supreme Head of Christ's Church'. Seen here is St John's Gate. From Old and New London, Vol. II: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]