St Dunstan in the East

London


Bombed to bits in the Blitz, the atmospheric ruins of 12th-century St Dunstan's have been left to the elements, resulting in a beautifully sombre public garden sprouting below the miraculously intact steeple and amidst the church's surviving blackened walls, with ivy crawling through the skeletal windows.

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