Fenchurch Street

This article is about the road. For the railway terminus, see Fenchurch Street railway station.

Midway down Fenchurch Street, looking west. 20 Fenchurch Street is under construction

Fenchurch Street is a street in London, England, linking Aldgate at its eastern end with Lombard Street and Gracechurch Street in the west. It is a well-known thoroughfare in the City of London financial district and is the site of many corporate offices and headquarters. The name "Fenchurch" means "church in the fenny or marshy ground"[1] and presumably refers to St Gabriel Fenchurch,[2] 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, a mainline terminus with services towards east London and Essex. Other notable sites include the commercial buildings at 20 Fenchurch Street and 30 Fenchurch Street (formerly known as Plantation Place).

  1. ^ Mills, David (2010). A Dictionary of London Place-Names (2 ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-956678-5.
  2. ^ Brown, Matt (2016). "London's Tallest Buildings and How They Got Their Names". Londonist. Retrieved 14 November 2022.