| St Anne's Churchyard | |
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| Location | Wardour Street, Soho |
| Coordinates | 51°30′45″N0°07′56″W / 51.5124°N 0.1323°W /51.5124; -0.1323 |
| Operated by | Westminster City Council |
| Open | All year |
St Anne's Churchyard, also known asSt Anne's Gardens, is a public park onWardour Street inSoho, London. Formerly the churchyard ofSt Anne's, Soho, it was closed to burials in 1853 byAct of Parliament.
It is believed that up to 60,000 bodies remain buried there. This explains why the ground is so high above the entrance onWardour Street.[1]
It was laid out as a garden by the landscape gardenerFanny Wilkinson on behalf of theMetropolitan Public Gardens Association in 1891. It was opened to the public byLady Hobhouse on 27 June 1892. TheLondon plane trees remain a notable feature of the garden.[2] It is managed byWestminster City Council and has received theGreen Flag Award.[3]
War memorials toWWI andWWII are located in the churchyard on the wall of the church tower.[4] The WWII memorial was only installed in 2012.[5] There are a small number of memorials remaining within the churchyard, including the essayistWilliam Hazlitt, whose gravestone was restored in 2003.[6]
The gardens contain a memorial to the victims of the1999 Admiral Duncan pub bombing.[7] There are three art installations, all of which serve practical purposes: "Wall of Light" (an illuminated security fence), "Art Loo" (a WC with art displays) and "Table" (a monumentally-sized picnic table).[8][9]
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