Seven Dials Covent Garden is a unique quarter of London whose star-shaped layout remains as constructed in the early 1690s. By 1974 the Seven Dials area was in a state of dereliction. 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.

The Trust has an attractive selection of limited edition cards for sale. Each card is A4 folded, printed on gloss board and comes with a white self-seal envelope...

The renowned artist David Gentleman's famous series of lithographs, Prospects of Covent Garden, published by the Seven Dials Press in 1971 sold out many years ago and are now sought-after collectors' items. As an unusual gesture of support for the work of the Seven Dials Trust, Gentleman drew an addition to the series and donated it to the Trust. The famous Westerham…

The Seven Dials Trust is a small voluntary organisation with a large portfolio of projects. In addition, it has to maintain the Sundial Pillar, which it owns. With no regular income, over the years the Trust has sought and received support from a wide range of local and national agencies, organisations and companies and generous individuals. In addition to sponsorship…

  To raise funds for the work of the Trust, we offer the opportunity to select and dedicate a significant year from 1694, when the Seven Dials Sundial Pillar was first erected, to date.   Your chosen year and the name of the sponsor and/or the dedicatee will be permanently recorded on the Year Donors' Plaque…

The five Street History Plaques – Seven Dials, Short’s Gardens, Monmouth Street, Mercer Street and Earlham Street – give an overview of the area as well as information about the fascinating history of the specific street, with illustrations. The material is taken from historian Steve Denford’s research which also informs our People’s Plaques project. Just one of the plaques, Earlham Street, remains…

The Trust’s People’s Plaque scheme highlights 28 fascinating people and institutions from the very local to the international. Lionel Lukin who invented the lifeboat has no plaque in London, neither does Syd Barrett, one of the founders of the Pink Floyd.  Did you know that ‘having a kip’ derives from the lodging house of the same name in Short's Gardens…

There are six sundials on the Sundial Pillar. Each enables different hours of the day to be read. The dial faces were designed and painstakingly carved and gilded by Caroline Webb in her studio in Wiltshire in 1989. The positions of the hour lines were calculated by the Trust's astronomer, Gordon Taylor, and the one tonne dialstone was carved by…

The cast bronze Time Plaques were designed by our astronomer Gordon Taylor. They enable conversion of apparent solar time into Greenwich Mean Time, with an eye to children being able to understand.   Each sponsor’s Time Plaque is positioned on The Dials.   Includes a quotation about time of their choice.   If you are…