BARBICAN ESTATE

Its front doors open onto a covered bridge, and the houses look over St Giles church.

NAMED AFTER

The posterns, small side gates in the City Wall at Cripplegate. A postern is a back door or side gate. The City Wall had several near here.

WHERE

The houses look over St Giles church and the stretch of lake between the church and the City Wall.

INSIDE

Most are long, narrow town houses with garages, open-tread stairs and roof gardens. The row also holds the rectory of St Giles.

WAY IN

Front doors on the covered Postern Bridge, with stairs down to St Giles Terrace