St Ann Blackfriars, Church Entry — Place photograph (1 of 3)

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Church Entry, Carter Lane, London EC4V 5EP

St Ann Blackfriars, Church Entry

Garden

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Wildland

Under 1 hour

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Why it's Wildland

3.4

In a narrow lane near St Paul’s, this small garden occupies the former churchyard of St Ann Blackfriars. Its quiet green space sits above centuries of religious and burial history.

This is a modest urban pause rather than a wild landscape: its appeal is the way a little garden preserves the footprint of a vanished parish church and part of Blackfriars’ long history.

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The experience

A short visit to see the garden and its surviving gravestones, then consider how the site changed from monastery precinct and parish church to burial ground and public garden.

Things to do

Look for the surviving gravestones

The former churchyard retains tombstones; the source describes their inscriptions as faded and difficult to read.

A few minutes

Find the monastery wall fragment

A substantial wall fragment survives in the garden. The source identifies it as part of the earlier Blackfriars Monastery, rather than St Ann’s church.

A few minutes

Read the blue plaque

The source notes a City of London blue plaque marking the site’s history.

A few minutes

Make a day of it

Quick escape · Under 1 hour

A brief pause in a lost churchyard

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Enter the pocket garden from Church Entry.
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Look for the surviving gravestones and the substantial wall described as part of Blackfriars Monastery.
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Find the City of London blue plaque, then leave by the same lane.

Verified history

Blackfriars Monastery was established in 1278. St Ann was a parish church within its precinct. After the monastery was dissolved under Henry VIII in 1550, the first church was demolished; a later parish church was consecrated in 1597 and destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. The churchyard continued to be used for burials until 1849. In 1907, landscape gardener Madeline Agar laid it out as a public garden. The source describes surviving gravestones, a monastery wall fragment and a City of London blue plaque.

Hidden details

The surviving wall is not from St Ann’s church — The substantial wall fragment in the garden is identified by the source as part of Blackfriars Monastery, which preceded the later parish church.

A gravestone with a family story — The source transcribes a stone commemorating Mary Roberts, who died in 1787 aged 34, two children who died in infancy, and David Roberts, who died in 1802.

When to go

· No specific time is evidenced as best.

The supplied source describes a small garden and historic remains but gives no seasonal highlights.

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What to look for

Look for surviving gravestones and the remains of a substantial wall identified by the source as part of Blackfriars Monastery. The source also notes a City of London blue plaque.