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The garden runs between the road and the church. A corner of the plaque is just visible in our photo, behind the railings, to the left of the white car.

There is a smaller garden beside the front entrance to the church, in Treadgold Street, which was also opened in 2018, to memorialise the dead of the Grenfell fire which tragic event happened in the June of the year that this anniversary garden was opened.

On 5 December 2017, at the special anniversary mass: "Bishop Michael also spoke of how St Clement’s was one of the first organisations in West London to respond to the Grenfell Tower Fire in the Summer of 2017, and the role which the church played in opening its doors at 3.00am on the night of the Fire, providing shelter to the survivors and refugees of the disaster."

An 1893 map shows where the schools were. The infants school was set back from Sirdar Road, immediately south of the church, almost certainly in the building that survives and Google Maps has labelled as "IntoUniversity Head Office". The boys and girls school was immediately west of the church.