Fen Court

Fen Court is a short pedestrian passageway in the City of London, linking Fenchurch Street to Fenchurch Avenue.

For the locality in New Zealand, see Fencourt.

Fen Court
Fen Court and 'The Gilt of Cain' sculpture
Length80 m (260 ft)
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
Postal codeEC3
Nearest Tube station Monument
Coordinates51.5121°N 0.0815°W / 51.5121; -0.0815
South endFenchurch Street
ToFenchurch Avenue

Fen Court garden

At the middle of the passageway is Fen Court garden, which was re-landscaped in 2008. It is close to the site of an earlier St Mary Woolnoth church, where the reverend John Newton delivered many anti-slavery sermons. A sculpture 'The Gilt of Cain', by Michael Visocchi, was unveiled in the park by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to commemorate the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.[1][2] The London Centre for Spiritual Direction has a small circular labyrinth laid out in the garden.[3]

The garden is on the site of the churchyard of St Gabriel Fenchurch, burnt down in the Great Fire of London in 1666.[1]

One Fen Court

In 2019, a mixed use building of 15 storeys built by Generali Real Estate with Eric Parry Architects,[4] called One Fen Court or 120 Fenchurch Street, opened alongside the east side of Fen Court. The building has a publicly accessible roof garden named The Garden at 120, and is 69 metres (226 ft) high.[5][6][7] A parallel pedestrian route to Fen Court runs through an undercroft in One Fen Court, with a ceiling-mounted public artwork.[4]

References
  1. "Fen Court". City of London. 21 August 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  2. "Fen Court - City of London". London Gardens Online. 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  3. "London's Pocket Parks: Fen Court, EC3". IanVisits. 28 February 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  4. "Fen Court". Buildington. 15 February 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  5. Wainwright, Oliver (21 February 2019). "Fen Court review - a candy-striped miracle in the central London skies". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  6. "Fen Court, London, EC3". CBRE. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  7. "One Fen Court". Permasteelisa Group. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
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