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Show fVxbX"-"-'gg' Many Gkl Cloisters in City of London Ancient cloisters, or parts of them, are still to be found In many parts of I.oidon; they are reminders of the days when the city boasted spacious monastic establishments. In St I'.artholoniew-the-Great at Smilhlield-relic of a wealthy priory -are some hays of the old cloister. A Zeppelin bomb In 11)1;. helped to reveal a further portion of this, buried under the present ground level Cloisters in miniature, with wooden nrehings. may be seen at Ely place adjoining the chapel-all that remains of the palace of the bishops of I'Jy The cloisler garth Is planted will) fig ; trees. St I' , ill's lias only a few fragments l" ps old cloisters. They were de- j stroyed with the fabric of old Si. Paul's In 1GIXI. It Is at Westminster abbey that you may see tile Unesl cloisters In London. Besides tile Great cloisters' there are the Llltle cloisters, where Die monks' Infirmary once j stood, and the Dark cloister that leads to the Norman undercroft. |