Parks and gardens

St Johns Garden

Welcome to the site page for St. Johns Garden, Horseferry Road.

This site won it's first Green Flag in 2008 and the Management Plan can be viewed by clicking on the highlighted link.

Location
Horseferry Road, SW1.

Tube:
1. The nearest underground station is Pimlico or St. James Station near Christchurch. From Pimlico station you turn left onto Vauxhall Bridge Road, cross road and go straight for 300 metres and turn left at Page Street where garden is situated.
2. Going from St James station, you turn right and go along 80 metres till you come to Victoria Street, cross road and walk through the market, carry on past Channel 4 television offices and a further 150 metres going straight then turning left onto Horseferry Road going another 200 metres where garden is on the right.

Buses:
Route 507 passes along Horseferry Road and routes 88 and C10 pass along Marsham Street.
Routes 3 and 87 both stop outside Victoria Tower Gardens on Millbank which is only a short walk along Horseferry Road from the site.

Facilities
Formal garden with bedding, lawns and ornamental shrubs.
Fountain
Donated Benches

History

The site is the former graveyard of St. Johns Church, Smith Square.

"Page Street, a clean and broad thoroughfare running parallel with Horseferry Road, presents a striking contrast to most of the streets and lanes which surround it. The graveyard belonging to St. John’s Church occupies the greater of one side; it is railed in from the street, and with its surrounding trees, and level surface of turf, appear as like an oasis in the wilderness. It is, perhaps, a pity that it cannot be made available as a recreation-ground for the children of this crowded neighborhood."

The garden as it appears to day was re-landscaped in 2000/01 as part of the development of the old Westminster Hospital site. As part of the works a new fountain was installed to replace the then derelict one that was there previously.