Seven Dials Covent Garden is a unique quarter of London whose star-shaped layout remains as constructed in the early 1690s. It was brought back to life largely through the dedication of the Seven Dials Trust, working in partnership with the local authorities and landowners for nearly forty years.

Knight of the stage and Hollywood star, Sir John Gielgud lived in a flat on this site from where he could see one of the theatres in which he directed and acted to great acclaim, now The Noel Coward Theatre.

A masterly translator of Virgil, John Dryden was also a brilliant versifier, a discerning critic and a savage satirist. He has been called 'the literary dictator of his age' and the first master of modern English prose. 

A famous watchmaker noted for his highly accurate clocks and marine chronometers, Edward John Dent was awarded a royal warrant in 1841 and won the tender to make the clock now known as Big Ben.