Space to Visit

Former churchyard now public gardens. The former burial ground of Christ Church which was opened as a public garden in 1885, at that time the responsibility of the Vestry of Battersea. It is a small triangular hedged garden with rose beds and lawns and with a picturesque curved shelter with tiled roof and central weather vane with clematis montana growing over part of it. Trees include horse chestnut, ornamental cherry and various recently planted trees. Adjacent is the church of Christchurch and St Stephen set within lawn, with trees and shrubs. The original Christ Church was built in 1849 by C Lee and T T Bury but destroyed in WWII, the current church rebuilt on the site in 1959. Outside the gardens on Cabul Road is a Metropolitan Drinking Trough.