St. John’s Gardens

A welcome green oasis in an area not overly blessed with greenery. It’s packed on summer lunchtimes with office workers from around the area (myself included), and there aren’t anything like enough benches to sit on. But it is nice they’ve left it. The tall buildings on three sides can leave it in deep shade, which is nice on a hot day.

A small green space along Horseferry Road in the Pimlico district of Westminster London. There are a number of benches as well as a pretty fountain. A perfect spot for a picnic lunch or just some time away from the hustle of the work life.
According to the sign in the park, the garden was acquired by the church of St. John the Evangelist, Smith Square, for the use as a cemetery and was consecrated in July 1731. Interestingly, there used to be quite a bit of grave-​robbing here for bodies to be used for dissection. The sign doesn’t seem to indicate what happened to the graves since then. So try not to think about that while you’re eating lunch, mmkay?