Tag: Church

A secret garden: the courtyard of St Vedast-alias-Foster Church, Foster Lane

Like its neighbour and contemporary, St Paul’s Cathedral, St Vedast-alias-Foster survived the blitz in the second world war when much of the local area was devastated amd destroyed….

St Nicholas Deptford

Ian Nairn called this “a chubby brick church of 1697, blitzed in the war” in his classic book Nairn’s London. He was  referring to the main bulk of…

Temple Tudor (and other period buildings)

It’s another wonderful, secluded London sanctuary hidden in plain sight from the busy streets that surround it, including Fleet Street and the Embankment. And it’s also another piece of…

When an old cricketer leaves the crease

As a very small boy, I apparently mistook a cemetery, with its white gravestones standing to attention in the green grass of the graveyard, for a cricket match….

Rotherhithe village

I love arriving in Rotherhithe. It feels a little isolated from the rest of London. Its history has been outward looking, towards the oceans and beyond. Adventures began…

St Dunstans In the East

St Dunstan’s survived the Great Fire but took a bomb during the Blitz and not much of it remains except for the tower that was designed by Christopher…

St John’s Churchyard, Wapping

Not much is left of St John the Evangelist Church in Wapping. It dates from the middle of the eighteenth century but did not survive World War Two….

Just another church on a busy main road

It was beginning to rain as I was walking down Euston Road and I was forced to take shelter under the portico of a church on the corner…

A grave concern

A dreaded sunny day So I meet you at the cemetery gates…. ….we go inside and we gravely read the stones All those people all those lives Where…