diff --git a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/View/ViewTest.php b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/View/ViewTest.php
index f18a02093..d154e8dea 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/View/ViewTest.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/View/ViewTest.php
@@ -1425,6 +1425,17 @@ class ViewTest extends CakeTestCase {
 		$this->assertSame('', $result);
 	}
 
+/**
+ * Test checking a block's existance.
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function testBlockExist() {
+		$this->assertFalse($this->View->exists('test'));
+		$this->View->assign('test', 'Block content');
+		$this->assertTrue($this->View->exists('test'));
+	}
+
 /**
  * Test setting a block's content to null
  *
diff --git a/lib/Cake/View/View.php b/lib/Cake/View/View.php
index a33dd1a1f..01bacfef5 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/View/View.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/View/View.php
@@ -698,6 +698,16 @@ class View extends Object {
 		return $this->Blocks->get($name, $default);
 	}
 
+/**
+ * Check if a block exists
+ *
+ * @param string $name Name of the block
+ * @return bool
+ */
+	public function exists($name) {
+		return $this->Blocks->exists($name);
+	}
+
 /**
  * End a capturing block. The compliment to View::start()
  *
diff --git a/lib/Cake/View/ViewBlock.php b/lib/Cake/View/ViewBlock.php
index f45119db7..51ec8e767 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/View/ViewBlock.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/View/ViewBlock.php
@@ -196,6 +196,16 @@ class ViewBlock {
 		return $this->_blocks[$name];
 	}
 
+/**
+ * Check if a block exists
+ *
+ * @param string $name Name of the block
+ * @return bool
+ */
+	public function exists($name) {
+		return isset($this->_blocks[$name]);
+	}
+
 /**
  * Get the names of all the existing blocks.
  *