London’s Pocket Parks: St Johns’ Cloister Garden, EC1
This is an easy to miss garden in Clerkenwell hidden away behind a high wall and although it looks like its part of the neighbouring church, it’s actually fairly modern — the result of post WWII clearance.There’s been a church on the site though back to the 18th-century, but closed as a parish church in 1931 and was gifted to the worldwide Order of Saint John (chartered 1888) to be its main English chapel.
They didn’t get to enjoy it for long as WWII gutted the church and
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