Chelsea Old Church

Chelsea Old Church stands on the riverside Cheyne Walk and preserves rare chapels linked to Sir Thomas More, the Tudor statesman who worshipped here and rebuilt part of it in the 1520s. The church was almost entirely destroyed by a wartime bomb in 1941 and carefully reconstructed, keeping surviving monuments including some of the earliest classical-style memorials in England. A seated statue of More sits outside facing the Thames. It offers a quiet link to Chelsea's history as a village of scholars.