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The churchyard includes seating surrounding planted areas which provides a quiet area to reflect not far from the Fenchurch Street.

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Nearest tube:Monument, Tower Hill or Aldgate

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History

In a quiet passageway off Fenchurch Street this garden was once the site of the churchyard of St Gabriel Fenchurch, one of the many churches lost to the Great Fire of London in 1666. A churchyard was recorded on this site as early as 1331. 

Fen Court is close to the site of St Mary Woolnoth church, where the Reverend John Newton, author of the legendary freedom hymn Amazing Grace, delivered many powerful anti-slavery sermons which were inspired by the abolitionist founder William Wilberforce with whom John Newton worked.

A public sculpture 'The Gilt of Cain' was unveiled by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2008 to commemorate the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in 1807.