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The small medieval church of a tiny parish. The church
and churchyard stood immediately to the east of St Anne
and St Agnes in Gresham Street. Both were destroyed in
the Great Fire, and the decision was taken to replace St
Anne and St Agnes rather than this one. The churchyard
continued in use until the 1860s. The firestorm of
December 29th 1940 revealed the original church vaults,
which were turned into a sunken garden by fire watchers.
After the War and the consequent rebuilding of Gresham
Street, the site of the church and its raised former
burial ground to the east were turned into a two-level
public garden to the design of Peter Shepheard, and
opened in 1962 as Goldsmiths' Garden. The garden was
modified in the 1990s, and is now home to the sculpture
known as The Three Printers by Wilfred Dudeney,
formerly in front of Newspaper House on New Street
Square.
Simon Knott, December 2015
location: Gresham Street EC2V 6BN - 2/031
status: churchyard only, 'Goldsmiths Garden'
access: open seven days a week
   
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