It was then refounded by King Henry VIII, when the chapel became an Anglican parish church serving those living within its precincts.

In 1793, George Dance the Younger, a Royal Academician, created a new octagonal interior within the shell of the medieval chapel,[3] its clerestorey rising above the old walls.

In 1823 it was replaced under the supervision of Thomas Hardwick,[4] who replicated the timber construction in stone with an iron ceiling.

St Bartholomew the Less Church's interior although small is light and airy, largely due to George Dance's use of high lunette windows.

[5] Its form is that of an octagonal Gothic vault fitted into a square by the means of adding open triangular chapels at its corners.