The City is full of garden spaces, some tiny, others massive (they actually own parts of Hampstead Heath and Burnham Woods, Epping Forest and Highgate Wood).
In the City itself they have a very enlightened policy to providing spaces, but even so there are still others not normally available to the public, and here are two of them.
Firstly the garden behind St Margaret Lothbury (where the font I recently wrote about is). It’s locked up along a lane at the side, and in all the years of passing it by it’s never been open – until one day last week when I nervously crept in.
Secondly the rear of All Hallows on the Wall – it’s not really a garden to be honest, it’s only visible through the window of the building at the rear (which is my local work doctors’ practise) and has two noticeable features;
It lies on the route of the original Roman wall of the City and parts of it can still be seen in the bottom of the building
The architectural surprise of this church is that the pulpit can only be accessed by going out of the main church, up the winding staircase inside the structure sticking out of the wall shown here, and back inside at the top. This is unique in City churches and I have no idea why it is here.
I once saw the most bizarre performance I have ever seen in my life here, just watch this video, you will not believe it.
