Overview

• The Grade I listed wing, including the Great Hall and Hogarth-decorated grand staircase, will welcome visitors on a limited two-days-per-week schedule.
• Conservation treated William Hogarth’s The Pool of Bethesda and The Good Samaritan alongside intricate decorative plasterwork.
• Exterior works repaired the roof, stonework, railings and more than 160 sash windows to stabilize the building fabric.
• The charity-led project, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and City of London donors, prepares the spaces for art, culture and wellbeing use.
• St Bartholomew’s chief executive Professor Charles Knight called the reopening a lasting legacy of the hospital’s 900th anniversary for England’s oldest working hospital.