Lost stretch of London's Roman Wall could reappear in the pavement outside Guildhall

"As part of plans, which are just getting started now, to refurbish an office block on the other side of the road (65 Gresham Street), the developer will be creating more ground-floor shops, aka cafes, and has agreed to pedestrianise the road as well. At the moment, it's mainly a narrow road that is halved in width by parking bays for cars and delivery vans."

"Although the wall is often seen as a circle around the city, it also surrounded a large fort in the northwestern corner of the City. And the road passes over part of that inner fortification. Sadly, what little of the wall that might have survived was lost in the 1950s when a modern office was constructed along the road, and what few archaeologists available at the time were diverted to work on the discovery of the Temple of Mithras."

The developer refurbishing 65 Gresham Street will create more ground-floor shops and has agreed to pedestrianise Aldermanbury, converting the narrow, parked road into a continuous pedestrian space. The scheme will retain the existing row of trees, add more planting and seating, and allow emergency vehicle access. The project aims to form a green link between the ponds outside St Lawrence Jewry and St Mary Aldermanbury Garden. Part of London's Roman Wall ran beneath Aldermanbury as an inner fortification, but surviving remnants were lost in the 1950s during office construction when archaeologists focused on the Temple of Mithras. Paving may mark the wall's outline, with interpretation signage.

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