St Alphage’s Church Ruins

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London, United Kingdom
On a nice day (or at least one that isn’t pouring down rain or freezing), this is a perfect spot to relax on a bench while admiring a bit of history.
This small park has a large section of the old Roman London Wall, so come take a seat and admire history!
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London, United Kingdom
Towards the east end of the motorway-​like road of London Wall, on the north side, are the remains of the church of St Alphage, and the adjacent gardens of the same name which enclose a section of London’s 900-​year old old city wall.
The church on the site was built in 1532 and named after St Alphage, (or Alphege) an Anglo-​Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury, captured by the Vikings and murdered by them in 1012. He was supposedly beaten to death by ox bones after a particularly good Viking feast, in Greenwich. He was the first Archbishop of Canterbury to be martyred, and it is said Thomas a Becket prayed to him as he was being martyred himself. His remains are buried in Canterbury Cathedral.
The church was damaged, but not destroyed, in the Great Fire of 1666, but became unsafe and was rebuilt in 1747 – 1777. The parish was merged with that of St Mary the Virgin Aldermanbury in 1917 and the church, except for the tower, was pulled down in 1924. The tower was damaged further in World War II, and now all that remains are three arches from the crossing under the tower, and some other fragments in the garden. It is now in the parish of St Giles Cripplegate.
It’s not much to look at, but is one of the those little fragments that makes modern London more interesting. Needless to say, it is surrounded by the generally overbearing but lifeless modern architecture that seems to typify London Wall.