Unfortunatelly I don’t have many pictures of new places I visited in the City during my lunchtime so I am not posting every day.

Yesterday I went to a small green area in Aldermanbury. I thought it was just a little green square but indeed it is the St Mary Aldermanbury church, better saying the footprint of the church that no longer exists.

The church was destroyed in the Great Fire, then rebuilt and destroyed again during the Blitz, leaving only the walls, that were transported away and the church was not rebuilt again.

The footprint of the church remains in the City, planted with bushes and trees and I had lunch in this place yesterday.

The gardens house a monument to Henry Condell and John Heminges, key figures in the production of the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays and co-partners with him in the Globe Theatre.

They lived in the St. Mary Aldermanbury parish and were buried in its churchyard. This monument is topped with a bust of Shakespeare.

The First Folio, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories. & Tragedies is the first published collection of William Shakespeare’s plays. It was prepared in 1623, about seven years after Shakespeare’s death.

“We have but collected
them, and done an
office to the dead…
without ambition either
of felfe-profit, or fame:
onely to keepe the
memory of fo worthy
a Friend, & Fellow alive,
as was our Shakespeare”

John Heminges
Henry Condell

The footprint of the church remains in the City, planted with bushes and trees.

Henry Condell and John Heminges were buried in its churchyard.