All Hallows-on-the-Wall
London Wall
London
EC2M 5ND
T: 020 7588 2638
E: info@allhallowsonthewall.org
W: www.allhallowsonthewall.org/
Visitor Information
Thanks to volunteers from The Friends of the City Churches we are able to open the church to the public most Fridays 11am – 3pm (please ring to check – 020 7588 8919).
The church of All Hallows London Wall is dedicated to All Hallows or 'All Saints'. The suffix 'London Wall' describes its location and was needed to distinguish it from the churches of All Hallows Bread Street, All Hallows Honey Lane, All Hallows the Great, All Hallows the Less, All Hallows Lombard Street, All Hallows Staining (all now gone) and the surviving All Hallows Barking by the Tower – all of them small parishes in medieval London.
That city, now contained geographically within the modern City of London, was surrounded by a wall which had been built by the Romans around 200AD, and the church of All Hallows, in part, stands literally upon that wall.
In the Second World War the City churches were badly bombed, and many did not survive. All Hallows however, like many others, was restored and is now a Guild Church. This means that it no longer has parish responsibilities, but instead a more specialised function, initially as the headquarters of the Council for the Care of Churches, and now the home of The Amos Trust, Greenbelt ACE, Stamp Out Poverty and The Wallspace, a gallery for contemporary art.