The London Burial Grounds: Notes on Their History from the Earliest Times to the Present DayHolmes, Isabella M.
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The London Burial Grounds: Notes on Their History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Holmes, Isabella M.
Cemeteries -- England -- London -- History
328. _St. Nicholas Cole Abbey_, Queen Victoria Street.—Very little left.
329. _St. Swithin_, Cannon Street.—Additional ground. One adjoining the
church has gone.
330. _Allhallows the Great_, Upper Thames Street.
331. _Allhallows the Less_, Upper Thames Street.—Site of burned church.
332. _St. Lawrence Pountney_, Cannon Street.—Two grounds. One is the
site of the burned church.
333. _St. Martin Orgar_, Cannon Street.—Site of burned church.
334. _St. George_, Botolph Lane.
335. _St. Mary at Hill_, Eastcheap.—Saved by the City Church and
Churchyard Protection Society 1879.
336. _St. Andrew Undershaft_, Leadenhall Street.
337. _St. Catherine Cree_, Leadenhall Street.—A part of the cemetery of
Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate.
338. _St. Helen_, Bishopsgate.—This is very often open, but not provided
with seats.
339. _St. Ethelburga_, Bishopsgate.
340. _St. Clement_, Eastcheap.
341. _St. Leonard_, Fish Street Hill.—Site of burned church.
342. _St. Magnus the Martyr_, London Bridge.
343. _St. Mary Woolnoth_, Lombard Street.—In danger at the present time.
344. _St. Nicholas Acons_, Lombard Street.
345. _St. Edmund King and Martyr_, Lombard Street. The property of the
Salters’ Company. Laid out as a garden with seats.
346. _Allhallows_, Lombard Street.—Closed in the cholera year, 1849.
347. _St. Gabriel_, Fenchurch Street.—The gift of Helming Legget.
348. _Allhallows, Staining_, Mark Lane.—Church destroyed in 1870 except
the tower. The property of the Clothworkers’ Company.
349. _St. Olave’s_, Hart Street.
350. _Allhallows, Barking_, Town Hill.
351. _St. Dunstan’s in the East_, Lower Thames Street.—Its opening is
under consideration.
352. _The Burial-ground of Christ’s Hospital._—This has been almost
covered with buildings, but a small piece remains as a yard near the
great hall.
353. _The Burial-ground of the Greyfriars._—This is a courtyard,
surrounded by the cloisters, in Christ’s Hospital, used as a playground
by the boys.
354. _St. James’s Churchyard_, Duke Street.—This is used as a playground
for the Aldgate Ward Schools.
355. _Additional ground for St. Bride’s_, Fleet Street.—This is off
Farringdon Street, is about 750 square yards in extent, and used as a
volunteer drill-ground. There are no tombstones, and the ground is
untidy. Consecrated 1610. Given by the Earl of Dorset.
356. _St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church ground_, Finsbury Square.—Very
little left.
357. _Bridewell Burial-ground._—This is about 900 square yards in size,
and is at the corner of Tudor and Dorset Streets. It was the
burial-ground of the hospital, which has been removed. It is now a very
untidy yard, boarded up with a rough advertisement hoarding, in the
occupation of H. S. Foster, builder, 7, Tudor Street. It would make a
good public playground.
III. Burial-grounds which have been paved and added to the public
footway, but are still traceable. The churchyards of—
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