London’s Alleys: St Michael’s Alley, EC3

This winding passage snakes around a cluster of alleys in the City and is probably more famous for the former coffee house that can be found here. The name though, doesn’t come from the coffee house, but from the church that sits on the northern corner of the alley, St Michael, Cornhill.This is one of the oldest parishes in the City of London, predating the Norman Conquest, although naturally, the church on the site today is somewhat younger, being a post Great Fire of London rebuild and l