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St Dunstan-in-the-East

A bombed church left as a garden, with trees growing through the Gothic windows.

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Photo by Elisa.rolle, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A church stood here from about 1100. Wren gave it a tower and a needle spire after the Great Fire and the body was rebuilt in the 1810s, and that body was gutted in the Blitz of 1941. The City chose not to rebuild and in 1970 opened the shell as a garden: the walls and window tracery stand, Wren's tower stands, and the nave is lawn, benches and a fountain with creepers up the stone. It is the City's quietest corner and its most photographed.

Where
St Dunstan's Hill, EC3R 5DD
Nearest station
Monument · 3 min walk

Hours

Monday08:00 – 19:00
Tuesday08:00 – 19:00
Wednesday08:00 – 19:00
Thursday08:00 – 19:00
Friday08:00 – 19:00
Saturday08:00 – 19:00
Sunday08:00 – 19:00

Hours from the page that lists them, checked 4 September 2026.

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