St Paul's churchyard

St Paul's Churchyard is an area immediately around St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. Historically it included St Paul's Cross and Paternoster Row. It became one of the principal marketplaces in London. St Paul's Cross was an open-air pulpit from which many of the most important statements on the political and religious changes brought by the Reformation were made public during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Only one execution is recorded as taking place in St Paul's Churchyard; that of clergyman Henry Garnet, one of those found guilty of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot. As of 2024 the alley to the north of the cathedral grounds is named St Paul's Churchyard.