My third garden in the City of London visited on 17th October was Noble Street Gardens, off London Wall and near the Museum of London (which I must visit one day!). It is effectively closed to the public, but may be viewed from above. On the opposite corner is a small open space where children were playing, whilst towards the south end part of the churchyard of St Anne and St Agnes spilled onto the pavement.
Noble Street Gardens is a sunken garden made post-WWII adjacent to the Plaisterers' Hall. The area suffered heavy bomb damage in WWII and the excavated garden contains remains of the old Roman Wall. The Worshipful Company of Plaisterers was incorporated in 1501 and its original hall was built in 1556 in Addle Hill off Carter Lane, rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666 and then again in 1882 after another fire. The hall here dates from 1970-3, rebuilt c.2002. Noble Street is named after a C14th landowner, Thomas Noble.
