The body of the church was destroyed in the Blitz, but the shell remains and has been turned into a charming garden
If the environs of the church are uninspiring, the interior of St Botolph’s is breathtaking. Remodelled at the end of the 19th century by John Francis Bentley, architect of Westminster Cathedral,
B etween Cornhill and Lombard Street there is a maze of narrow passageways and alleys created so that messengers could flit to and fro between all the different businesses that were based around here
Set inconspicuously behind a grill in the wall of 111 Cannon Street, once the site of St Swithun’s Church, is a block of pale limestone known as the LONDON STONE.
