London, St Dunstan-in-the-East V / Ruins / Church / Lost Place by Marlika Art

You wouldn’t expect to find this place in the heart of London: the ruins of a church that is now a public park. Mystical, magical and surprising all at once! The walls are a reminder of the former St Dunstan-in-the-East Church, of which only a few walls and the tower remain. If you walk through the former main entrance and look up, you can see the sky and the many plants that are gradually taking over the ruins. This setting seems almost unreal in the heart of London’s financial district. The park is a small oasis of calm in the midst of the fast-paced city.
The church was built as early as the 12th century. After the Second World War, only the walls and the tower remained standing. This prompted the decision to transform the site into a park in 1971. Landscape gardeners were commissioned to, amongst other things, allow climbing plants to grow there, which has paid off: the plants have overgrown the ruins, turning them into a very special place with the feel of a ‘lost place’ – though it is anything but abandoned in the heart of London!

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