Old Operating Theatre, Museum and Herb Garret
9A St Thomas Street, London SE1 9RY
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- Phone : +44 20 7188 2679
- Website: : http://www.thegarret.org.uk
Description
The roof space of St Thomas's Church (1703) in Southwark was utilised as an operating theatre for St Thomas's Hospital from 1821 to1862. In the form of a semi-circular amphitheatre, it is the oldest room of this type in London. Today it is incorporated into a museum illustrating the history of 19C surgery. The chapel is now used as a chapterhouse for the cathedral canons. One wing of the old buildings now houses a post office.
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