On Saturday 7th June 2025, as part of London Festival of Architecture, Matthew Lloyd Architects devised and guided a very successful walking tour around 36 historic Churches in the City of London, led and narrated by director Alex Sherratt. Of the churches on our route, 34 of them are Grade 1 listed, and 21 were designed by Christopher Wren and built between 1670 and 1700.

Our route took in:

St Lawrence Jewry
St Margaret Lothbury
All Hallows, London Wall
St Botolph without Bishopsgate
St Helen's, Bishopsgate
St Andrew Undershaft
St Katherine Cree
St Botolph, Aldgate
St Olave, Hart Street
All Hallows-by-the-Tower
St Margaret Pattens
St Mary-at-Hill
St Magnus the Martyr
St Clement, Eastcheap
St Edmund, King and Martyr
St Peter, Cornhill
St Michael Cornhill
St Mary Abchurch
St Mary Woolnoth
St Stephen Walbrook
St James, Garlickhythe
St Mary Aldermary
St Nicholas, Cole Abbey
St Benet, Paul's Wharf
St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe
St Martin, Ludgate
St Bride's, Fleet Street
St Dunstan-in-the-West
St Andrew, Holborn
St Bartholomew-the-Great
St Bartholomew-the-Less
St Sepulchre-without-Newgate
St Botolph, Aldersgate
St Giles', Cripplegate
St Mary-le-Bow
St Vedast, Foster Lane


An accompanying map has been produced for the walking tour that corresponds with the churches included in the on-going Framework Conservation Plan being undertaken by Matthew Lloyd Architects and Alan Baxter Associates on behalf of the City Deanery.

The full walk is approximately 12km, starting in Guildhall Yard taking a clockwise route and ending at the west end of Cheapside, but could easily be broken down into smaller manageable portions.

For those who missed out the tour, below are some snapshots we have taken during the day, plus our map for you to give the route a go for yourself.