Fenchurch Street is a street in London linking

Aldgate Aldgate () was a gate in the former defensive wall around the City of London. It gives its name to Aldgate High Street, the first stretch of the A11 road, which included the site of the former gate. The area of Aldgate, the most common use of ...

at its eastern end with Lombard Street and

Gracechurch Street Gracechurch Street is a main road in the City of London, the historic and financial centre of London, which is designated the A1213. It is home to a number of shops, restaurants, and offices and has an entrance to Leadenhall Market, a covered ...

in the west. It is a well-known thoroughfare in the

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financial district and is the site of many corporate offices and headquarters. The name "Fenchurch" means "church in the

fen A fen is a type of peat-accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water. It is one of the main types of wetlands along with marshes, swamps, and bogs. Bogs and fens, both peat-forming ecosystems, are also known as mires. T ...

ny or marshy ground" and presumably refers to St Gabriel Fenchurch, which stood at the junction of Fenchurch Street and Cullum Street until it was destroyed by the Great Fire. To the south of Fenchurch Street and towards its eastern end is

Fenchurch Street railway station Fenchurch Street railway station, also known as London Fenchurch Street, is a central London railway terminus in the southeastern corner of the City of London. It takes its name from its proximity to Fenchurch Street, a key thoroughfare in the ...

, a mainline terminus with services towards east London and Essex. Other notable sites include the commercial buildings at

20 Fenchurch Street 20 Fenchurch Street is a commercial skyscraper in London that takes its name from its address on Fenchurch Street, in the historic City of London financial district. It has been nicknamed "The Walkie-Talkie" because of its distinctive shape, ...

and

30 Fenchurch Street 30 Fenchurch Street is one of the largest office developments in the City of London, the primary financial district of London. Until October 2020, the building was known as Plantation Place, taking its name from a previous Plantation House, once ...

(formerly known as ''Plantation Place'').

Streetscape

Fenchurch Street is home to many shops, pubs and offices, including

, a 525 ft tall skyscraper completed in 2014. Fenchurch Street London

Located at No. 71 is

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, where the annual journal ''Lloyd's Registry'' was previously published. The frontage on Fenchurch Street was built in 1901 by Thomas Edward Collcutt and is a Grade II*

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. The more modern building behind was designed by

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and towers above it. This was completed in 1999 and was shortlisted for the

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Stirling prize in 2002. At the street's eastern end and junction with

is the

Aldgate Pump Aldgate Pump is a historic water pump in London, located at the junction where Aldgate meets Fenchurch Street and Leadenhall Street. The pump is notable for its long, and sometimes dark history, as well as its cultural significance as a symbo ...

, a historic water pump which has been designated a Grade II listed structure. Further west, Fenchurch Street's junction with Lime Street was formerly the location of a

Christopher Wren Sir Christopher Wren PRS FRS (; – ) was one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history, as well as an anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist. He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches ...

church,

St Dionis Backchurch St Dionis Backchurch was a parish church in the Langbourn ward of the City of London. Of medieval origin, it was rebuilt after the Great Fire of London to the designs of Christopher Wren and demolished in 1878. Early history The church of St D ...

. First built in the 13th century dedicated to the patron saint of France, it was destroyed during the Great Fire in 1666, later rebuilt by Wren, and then demolished in 1878. The western portion of Fenchurch Street formed part of the marathon course of the 2012 Olympic Games. In 2019, a mixed use building of 15 storeys with a publicly accessible roof garden, called

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

, opened at 120 Fenchurch Street. The nearest

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stations are

(just beyond the eastern end of the street),

Tower Hill Tower Hill is the area surrounding the Tower of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is infamous for the public execution of high status prisoners from the late 14th to the mid 18th century. The execution site on the higher grou ...

(to the southeast) and

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(to the west);

has no direct Underground connection. The postcode for the street is EC3M.

References

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Streetscape

See also

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