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A pleasing sight off of Ironmonger Lane, the long path
through the former burial ground leading to the tower
with its large casement door. The church had been rebuilt
after the Great Fire in what Wayland Young thought a
curious coffin-shape by the Wren workshop. It was one of
the churches sold off in the 19th Century to raise money
for the construction of churches elsewhere in the
Diocese, and the £22,400 received in 1892 was used to
build the church of St Olave in Stoke Newington. The
tower was kept and converted into the rectory for St
Margaret Lothbury. It now appears to form part of an
office complex with the post-war building behind. Nobody
seemed to mind me wandering up to take a look.
Simon Knott, December 2015
location: Ironmonger Lane, Cheapside EC2V -
2/052
status: tower only, converted into offices,
churchyard now courtyard
access: visible from street, courtyard
accessible in office hours
  
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