Courtfield Gardens were built as part of the Gunter Estate in the mid-19th century. When plans were being drawn up to develop the area around Earl's Court Manor (next to Earl's Court station), the Gunter family gave some of the fields to be used for a new church - St Jude's. The church opened on Christmas Eve in 1870 and closed as a parish church in 2004; now the building is home to St Mellitus Theological College. The surrounding sunken garden exists for the private use of local residents and features ornamental flowerbeds, a bank of azaleas and rhododendrons and self-seeded violets.
A tranquil mid-Victorian square with a wide variety of shrubs and ornamental trees dating from 1873 which is dominated by one of London's largest plane trees.
Grade II*-listed houses, representing the extreme point of late Victorian individualism, surround a communal garden laid out in simple, naturalistic style by leading Edwardian landscape designer Harold Peto.
The serene setting of this beautiful roof garden - described as one of London's best-kept secrets - reflects motifs from Islamic architectural heritage.
