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I’d love to know where in London this Carmelite monastery crypt! It doesn’t have anything to do with Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet St, by any chance?
I love the sense that I get from these photos: that I could step into them, step into a time now long past…
Like Hari, I was intrigued by the Carmelite monastery crypt — in particular by what appears to be a very large cannon, with its barrel blocked by cement. How it came to be in the crypt of a Carmelite monastery could be an interesting story!