St Alphage House is a 1960s office block on Fore Street in the City of London

City of London

The City of London is a small area within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which the modern conurbation grew and has held city status since time immemorial. The City’s boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, and it is now only a tiny part of...

. It was built by the developer Maurice Wingate to a design by Maurice Sanders Associates. It is named after Saint Alphege and the church St Alphage London Wall

St Alphage London Wall

St Alphage London Wall, so called because it sat right on London Wall, the City of London boundary, was a church in Bassishaw Ward in the City of London...

 whose ruins are below. It was built as part of the redevelopment of London Wall

London Wall

London Wall was the defensive wall first built by the Romans around Londinium, their strategically important port town on the River Thames in what is now the United Kingdom, and subsequently maintained until the 18th century. It is now the name of a road in the City of London running along part of...

 and and was one of a series of similar blocks built between 1957 and 1976.

It was announced in 2009 that the building was to be "stripped out" by the City of London Corporation for tax reasons.

The site has been proposed for redevelopment on numerous occasions. The contractor Hammerson, has won permission to redevelop the site based on a design by Make.

St Alphage Garden

St Alphage Garden

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is nearby.