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The medieval church of a small parish, it stood
along the line of Fenchurch Street. The church was
destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt, though as
was common the burial ground remained in use, and now
forms a garden in Fen Court off of Fenchurch Street.
Several tombchest memorials survive among the benches and
shrubberies. The garden is a haven amongst the generally
anonymous blocks of this part of the City, although the
monumentally obtuse Minster Court does overshadow the
site, surely the Square Mile's worst middle-rise
building, looking like a rejected cast-off from a
low-budget Batman film. After
the destruction of the Great Fire, the parish was
absorbed into that of St Edmund, and then into St Mary
Woolnoth. One of the Rectors of St Mary Woolnoth was John
Newton, the slave trader turned abolitionist, and in 2008
Fen Court became home to the dramatic sculpture The
Gilt of Cain by Lemn Sissay, which was unveiled by
Archbishop Desmond Tutu in commemoration of
the bicentenary of the abolition of the
transatlantic slave trade.
Simon Knott, December 2015
location: Fen Court, Fenchurch Street EC3M
5BA - 4/026
status: churchyard only
access: public thoroughfare, open all hours
seven days a week
     
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