St Mary Aldermanbury Garden — Attraction in London

A park overlooked by most visitors to the guildhall, at the top of the street just past the clock museum is Shakespeare park, you won't find it on a Web search but it is here all the same,the inscriptions below the bust of Shakespeare are references to his two friends who gathered together his works after his death to preserve them,.when you leave walk past the police stables and view the church steeple in the middle of the road, through the tunnel opposite is the ruins of the church, the two were built separately because there was not enough space to build as one, continue on and there is part of the London wall, at the top at London wall road is a small ruin of a park with a plaque mentioning that nearby is where Shakespeare lived in lodgings, to your left you will see the museum of London, worth a visit especially if you...

Pleasant little Church Garden on the corner of Love Lane ( Once a red light district ) & Aldermanbury . Worth a visit if you are in the vicinity visiting Guildhall which is a minute or two walk away. There was a medieval church on the site which was destroyed in The Great Fire , rebuilt by Wren & then , like so many other churches , bombed in the blitz of WWII. Strangely , the ruins were removed & erected on the campus of Westminster College , Fulton , Missouri as a nod to Winston Churchill who made his speech about an Iron Curtain coming down over Europe there. The bust of Shakespeare is there because 2 great friends of his were parishioners at St. Mary Aldermanbury. Plenty of seats in the garden & like most of these church gardens you will find local office workers & construction workers making good...

In 1642 John Owen visited the church for a service at which he gave his life to Christ.

"He expected to hear Edmund Calamy preach, but a substitute was in the pulpit. Owen’s friend urged him to leave with him to hear a more famous minister some distance away, but Owen decided to stay. The substitute preacher chose as his text, “Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?” God used that sermon to bring Owen to assurance of faith. Later, Owen tried in vain to learn the identity of the preacher."

-Dr. Joel Beeke and Randall...