Image source: Google Street view
The excellent Greenwich Phantom tells us that the footprint of the old church is shown "by a beech hedge, some of the foundation stones marking out the original position." We can see the beech hedge but we've not spotted the foundation stones. We only read this after our visit so we have resorted to Google Street view for our photo.
SE10, King William Walk, St Mary's Gate into Greenwich Park
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Mary’s church, Greenwich
One of architect George Basevi's early commissions - he was brought up in Gre...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St Mary’s church, Greenwich
These cobbles mark out the site of the original circular church of the medieval priory of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.
When we photographed the stone we did not notice the rectangular clearing around it but this Google Satellite image displays the space we...
The modern information board reads: These gardens are laid out as the footprint of the Chapter House and Cloister of the Medieval Cathedr...
Our picture comes from Google satellite view and shows, better than can be seen at ground level, the (partial) outlines of the two church...
To the casual passerby these strips look like the expansion joints one sees on bridges. It was David Brown who drew our attention to what...
On the monument as "5397 Australian air crew lost in action over Europe during the Second World War 1939 - 1945".
This brainteasing benefactor presents us with an enigma. Searching the web we found a book "Heretical Doctrines of the Plymouth Brethren by one unknown - yet well known" published 1852. To quote ...
Cabbies are attempting to propagate a myth that these mice commemorate two builders who died while working on the nearby Monument. We ca...
In 1865 the Local Government Act 1858 was adopted by the parish of Acton, and a twelve-member local board of health was formed to govern the area. The Parish of Acton became an Urban District in 1...
