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I caught St Clement in its last days. It was
early 2012. Up a lane not far from the Monument is its
simple narrow frontage, and I stepped into the west end
of a gloomy, dusty, dark-wooded space, the glass in the
high windows barely discernible on a late winter day. It
could have been any time in the last century. Soon after,
the church was gutted to be turned into office space -
the reredos and other furnishings were retained, but it
wasn't the same. The star of the show is the reredos by
Grinling Gibbons, regilded and relettered by Ninian
Comper a hundred years ago.This
is of course the Oranges and Lemons church, although St
Clement Dane a couple of miles off makes a claim for the
same fame.
Simon Knott, December 2015
location: Clement's Lane EC4N 7AE - 4/021
status: guild church, now in use as offices
access: 9.30am-5.30pm Friday, viewable through
glass doors at other times
          
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