Walks and Galleries

Architectural Walks
A selection of 2 hour walks featuring the
architecture of London:

  • Sir Christopher Wren’s City Churches
  • An Amazing Maze of Mews in Kensington
  • Cutting Edge Architecture in the City
  • A Palladian Walk in Westminster
  • Artist’s Abodes in Chelsea and Kensington

    • Art Galleries
    Enjoy a highlight (or more specialised tour) of these galleries – learn about the works of art, the lives of their artists, how they worked, and their place in art history.

    The National Gallery is situated in Trafalgar Square with a distinctive ‘pepper-pot’ roofline. It contains the national collection of Western European paintings from the 13th century Wilton Diptych to the late 19th Century ‘Sunflowers’ by Van Gogh.

    The National Portrait Gallery
    This is a fascinating gallery which recounts Britain’s development through portraits of its main historical characters. There are portraits of kings, queens, poets, musicians, artists, thinkers, heroes and villains from the late 14th Century to the present day.

    Tate Britain
    Once the site of a prison on the banks of the Thames, it is now a temple to art providing a home for paintings by British artists from the 16th Century to the present day, including Gainsborough, Constable, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites.

    Tate Modern is a ‘Powerhouse of Art’ recreated in a stunning conversion from Bankside power station. It houses the national collection of modern and contemporary art from the 20th and 21st Century including Dali, Pollock, Rothko and Picasso.

    Guildhall Art Gallery contains the art collection of the Corporation of London, with fine paintings of the City and Victorian works by Rossetti, Watts and Poynter. The foundations of a Roman amphitheatre, discovered in the 1980’s, can be seen in the basement.

    Courtauld Gallery is one of the leading university art museums in Britain. It has works of art from 1300 to the 20th Century and is particularly known for it collection of Impressionist and post- Impressionist works. It is housed in Somerset House, an elegant Georgian building by Sir William Chambers.

    The Wallace Collection was collected by five generations of the Hertford Family. The collection was bequeathed to the nation in 1897 and it has very fine examples of 18th Century French art, furniture and porcelain.

    Literary London Walks
    Follow in the footsteps of William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Samuel Pepys, Samuel Johnson, T S Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Wolfe and many more.

    London at War Walks
    Lost, Found and Saved – The Heritage Impact of World War II
    Westminster in WWII with Churchill’s Cabinet War Rooms
    Little America in Mayfair – The Yanks are over Here!