retaining its own PCC and Churchwardens, on 1 June 2015, the parishes of both churches were dissolved and replaced with the united benefice of Great St Bartholomew. The Rector of the former parish of St Bartholomew the Great became Rector of the united benefice. The boundary of the new parish incorporates precisely both former parishes. There is now a single PCC and Churchwardens responsible for both buildings. The parish church is St Bartholomew the Great, while St Bartholomew the Less is a Chapel of Ease within the parish. Services continue to be held at the church, especially a 12:30 Anglican Eucharist on Tuesdays, a 12:30 Roman Catholic Mass at 12:30 on Thursdays, and a 10:00 Anglican Family Eucharist on most Sundays of the year. Notable people associated with the church Thomas Bodley, founder of Bodleian Library: buried 1613 Thomas D'Oylie, physician and linguist: buried 1603 Inigo Jones, architect: baptised 1573 Abbots of Shrewsbury, Richard Lye, Abbot of Shrewsbury: buried 1512 John Lyly, author and playwright: buried November, 1606 Thomas Monro, Vicar and Hospitaller of St Bartholomew the Less, 1754–65 Thomas Watson, poet: buried 1592 See also List of churches and cathedrals of London Notes External links Official website AIM25 Archive page for St Barts the Less 12th-century establishments in England Pre–Great Fire churches in the City of London Church of England church buildings in the City of London Grade II* listed churches in the City of London Diocese of London Anglo-Catholic church buildings in the City of London