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St Mary Aldermanbury Garden

The footings of a church that was shipped to Missouri, and a monument to the two men who saved Shakespeare.

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The footings left in the grass, where the columns stood. Photo by Doyle of London, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Wren's church was bombed in 1940 and in 1966 what was left of it was taken down, numbered, and rebuilt stone by stone in Fulton, Missouri, as a memorial to Churchill's Iron Curtain speech given there. The foundations that stayed behind are a small garden, with the column bases still in the grass. The bust of Shakespeare in the middle is a monument of 1896 to John Heminges and Henry Condell, his fellow actors and parishioners here, who gathered his plays into the First Folio in 1623. Half of them would otherwise be lost.

Where
Love Lane, EC2V 7HH
Nearest station
Moorgate · 4 min walk

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