Whittington Gardens - Upper Thames Street, London, UK
N 51° 30.652 W 000° 05.533
30U E 701769 N 5710646
Whittington Gardens is a small oasis in the City of London. It is located between Upper Thames Street along its southern border and College Street along the northern side. The gardens are owned and maintained by the Corporation of the City of London.
Waymark Code: WMJN11
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/07/2013
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The
UK
Attraction website tells us:
Whittington Gardens is a small but
beautiful place of peace and tranquillity at the heart of London's financial
district. Named after Dick Whittington, the most famous Lord Mayor of
London, the gardens are managed by the local authority and are open at all
times for local people, tourists and workers to enjoy some respite from the
busy streets of the capital. The gardens are particularly popular at
lunchtimes and after work as there are a huge amount of offices nearby.
The
London Gardens Online website tells us about the garden:
The Whittington Garden is named
after the Lord Mayor Richard Whittington (d.1423) who was buried in St
Michael Paternoster Royal Church, which he had rebuilt at his own expense in
1409. An earlier church of 1219 is referred to in C13th documents. He also
founded a college and almshouses on which he bestowed the rights and profits
of the church, having been granted a piece of land for the purpose by City
of London. This church was destroyed in the Great Fire of London and rebuilt
by Wren by 1694, its steeple erected in 1713. The Wren church is set back
from the main road behind Whittington Garden, which is laid out in two
parts, separated by hedge. One part is grassed, railed and locked and the
other is largely paved, with seats, small fountain and shrubs. In Roman
times the site of the gardens was on the riverbank and later had buildings
connected to the fur trade, but these were demolished after bomb damage in
World War II.
The Corporation of London acquired the site in 1955, ownership of part of it
being exchanged in 1956 for the graveyard of St Martin Vintry, a parish that
was united with that of St Michael Paternoster Royal after the Great Fire of
1666. St Martin Vintry dated from the C12th with a churchyard in existence
by 1211, lost due to the widening of Upper Thames Street in the 1960s. The
parish of St Michael Queenhithe was amalgamated in 1875 and that of All
Hallows the Great in 1894. The garden was laid out in 1960, the original
layout having an open paved area to the west, with low brick walls to the
north, a few trees and flowerbeds, and to the east a railed lawn with flower
beds and a single tree. A small fountain was erected in the west area in the
late 1960s; the east section is now surrounded by hedge and flower beds have
gone. Since the 1960s some planting has been added alongside the church.
The "Official Tourism" URL link to the attraction: [Web Link]
Hours of Operation: 24/7
Admission Prices: Free
Approximate amount of time needed to fully experience the attraction: Less than 15 minutes
Transportation options to the attraction: Personal Vehicle or Public Transportation
The attraction’s own URL: Not listed
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