I forgot to mention that I went to see the former rectory of Sr. John Horsleydown at the weekend.

I had no idea that it still survived only a couple of blocks south of Tower Bridge – an early eighteenth-century rectory, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, at the junction between Fair Street and Tower Bridge Road.

St. John Horsleydown was one of Hawksmoor’s later, and less monumental, churches, designed jointly with John James when the Fifty Churches Commission was winding down and had lost its enthusiasm for spending a lot of money on new churches. It was badly bombed in the war, but was only closed in 1968:-

Anyway, the Rectory survives next door, fairly intact, in what was the churchyard, now a public garden:-