Chapter XX: Appendix: B

BURIAL-GROUNDS IN LONDON WHICH HAVE BEEN ENTIRELY DEMOLISHED FOR NEW
STREETS, RAILWAY LINES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PRIVATE HOUSES, &C.

THE CITY.

_Name of Churchyard or Burial-ground._ _What occupies the Site._

1. │ There were Roman Cemeteries in various parts of the City. 2. │ Sepulchral remains have been found in Newgate Street, 3. │ Ludgate, Camomile Street, St. Mary at Hill, St. Dunstan’s 4. │ in the East, St. Paul’s Churchyard, and Bishopsgate 5. │ Churchyard (the last named being very ancient, possibly of 6. │ British origin). See also Whitechapel, Limehouse, Bermondsey, 7. │ and Lewisham.

_Name of Churchyard or _What occupies the Site_
Burial-ground_

8. Burial-grounds of St. The General Post Office.
Martin le Grand and St.
Lennard, Foster Lane

9. Jews original Burial-ground Jewin St. and neighbourhood.

10. St. Nicholas Shambles Newgate Street.

11. St. Benet, Paul’s Wharf Thrown into St. Benet’s Hill.

12. The Workhouse Ground, Shoe The Farringdon Market occupied
Lane, belonging to St. the site, and a street has
Andrew’s, Holborn now taken its place

13. Allhallows’, Honey Lane The Old City of London School
was built on its site.

14. St. Mary le Bow Warehouses and street full of
vans, called Bow Churchyard.

15. St. John, Cloak Lane Taken by District Railway in
1879 for Cannon Street
Station, &c.

16. St. Mary Bothaw Cannon Street Station, S.E.R.

17. St. Mary Mounthaw Taken for Queen Victoria St.

18. St. Nicholas Olave Taken for Queen Victoria St.

19. St. Mary Magdalen Taken for Queen Victoria St.

20. Elsing Spital Priory Warehouses, London Wall.

21. St. Peter le Poer, Broad Houses in Broad Street.
St.

22. St. Thomas Acons Mercer’s Hall.

23. St. Bartholomew’s Priory, This had a cemetery attached,
Smithfield which is covered by the
buildings near the south
transept of the church.

24. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital West wing of hospital.
Burial-ground

25. St. Swithin, Cannon Street Roadway on north side of
church.

26. St. Dunstan in the West, Probably north end of present
Fleet Street church.

27. St. Michael le Querne Cheapside.

28. Additional ground to Southern end of St.
Christ Church, Moorgate Bartholomew’s Hospital.
Street

29. St. Mary Colechurch Old Jewry.

30. St. Margaret Moses, Friday Cannon Street.
Street

31. Garden in Hosier Lane, Built upon about 1560.
used for St. Mary le Bow

32. Holy Trinity the Less, Mansion House Station.
Trinity Lane

33. St. Mary Axe, Leadenhall Houses on west side of the
Street street called St. Mary Axe.

34. St. Mary Woolchurch Haw Mansion House.

35. St. Bartholomew by the Threadneedle Street.
Exchange

36. Bethlem Burial-ground Liverpool Street Station.
(also called Rowe’s)

37. St. Benet, Gracechurch St. Corner of Fenchurch Street.

38. St. Margaret, New Fish St. Metropolitan Railway.

39. St. Andrew Hubbard Houses between Botolph Lane
and Love Lane. The old
King’s Weigh House Chapel
was on the site.

40. St. Botolph, Billingsgate Warehouse in Lower Thames
(Lower Ground) Street, with terra cotta
heads on the frontage.

41. Garden of Hundsdon House, 95 bodies buried in two pits
Blackfriars (French Embassy) here in 1623 after an
accident. Site now
disappeared.

42. Pest-field, Hand Alley New Street, Bishopsgate
Street.

43. The Churchyard of the This Burial-ground was on the
Dutch Church, Austin Friars south side of the Dutch
Church, now built over.

44. St. Michael, Crooked Lane King William Street.

45. St. James’ Hermitage Houses south of the postern
Burial-ground and the south wall of St.
Giles’ Churchyard,
Cripplegate.

46. Cemetery of the Crutched South of Fenchurch Street.
Friars

ST. MARYLEBONE.

47. Churchyard of Old Tyburn Marylebone Court House,
Church Stratford Place.

48. Burial-place for those Corner of Upper Bryanston
executed at Tyburn Street and Edgware Road.

PADDINGTON.

49. Pest-field, Craven Hill Craven Hill Gardens.
Probably never used.

HAMMERSMITH.

50. Convent Burial-ground, Part of the buildings of the
King Street Convent of the Sacred Heart,
rebuilt by Cardinal Manning.

ST. MARGARET AND ST. JOHN, WESTMINSTER.

51. Buckingham Chapel, Palace Brewery on south side.
Street

ST. MARTIN’S IN THE FIELDS.

52. St. Martin’s additional Part of the buildings of the
ground National Gallery.

53. Burial-ground for the Castle Street, Long Acre.
Friends of the Westminster
Division

54. Burial-ground of St. Mary Northumberland Avenue.
Rounceval Convent

ST. JAMES’S, WESTMINSTER.

55. Pest-field Golden Square and district
round.

THE STRAND.

56. Additional ground for St. French Chapel, Crown Street,
Martin’s in the Fields Soho, now Charing Cross
Road.

57. German Burial-ground, Medical Examination Hall and
Savoy Savoy Chambers.

58. Old Somerset House Somerset House.
Cemetery

59. Westminster Convent Part of Covent Garden Market.
Burial-Ground

60. Almshouse Ground, Clemens New Lane Courts.
Lane

61. Burial-ground by the Possibly the Floral Arcade.
Workhouse, St. Paul’s,
Covent Garden

62. Cemetery of old St. Mary Somerset House, &c.
le Strand

ST. GILES’ IN THE FIELDS.

63. The Workhouse Part of the Workhouse in
Burial-ground Shorts

HOLBORN.

64. St. Sepulchre’s Additional Great Northern Goods Depôt.
Ground, Durham Yard

65. St. Sepulchre’s Workhouse Ditto. This was the larger of
Ground, Durham Yard the two.

66. Pardon Churchyard, Wilderness Row, subsequently
Charterhouse, Clerkenwell Road.

67. Baptist Chapel-ground, Goswell Road, just to the
Glasshouse Yard south of St. Thomas’s,
Charterhouse.

CLERKENWELL.

68. Nun’s Burial-ground Houses west side of St. James’
Walk.

69. St. James’s Additional Farringdon Road and the
Ground, Ray Street Railway.

70. Corporation Row Burial-pit Artisans’ dwellings on north
side.

71. Priory Cemetery St. John’s Square, &c.

ST. LUKE’S.

72. Thomas’, Golden Lane Factory on west side of St.
Mary’s Church, Charterhouse,
Playhouse Yard.

73. Pest-field, Old Street Bath Street, and many acres to
the north

74. Pest-field, Mount Mill Seward Street, Goswell Road,
north side.

75. Cupid’s Court Ground, Offices, &c., north of
Golden Lane Brackley Street.

SHOREDITCH.

76. Gloucester Street Gas Light and Coke Company’s
Chapel-ground premises.

77. Shoreditch Burial-ground, Wing of the Workhouse built in
Hoxton 1884.

78. Burial-ground by the New block of Artisans’
Goldsmiths’ Almshouses Dwellings west side of
Goldsmith Row.

79. Worship Street Baptist London and North Western Goods
Chapel-ground Depôt.

STOKE NEWINGTON.

80. Abney Congregational School buildings.
Chapel, Church Street

BETHNAL GREEN.

81. Roman Catholic Ground, Cambridge Road.
Bethnal Green

82. Pest-field, belonging to South of Lisbon Street and
Stepney Collingwood Street.

WHITECHAPEL.

83. Roman Cemetery Goodman’s Fields.

84. Burial-ground, Whitechapel Whitechapel Workhouse.
Road

85. St. Katharine, near the St. Katharine’s Docks.
Tower

86. Additional Ground to St. St. Katharine’s Docks.
Katharine

87. Bone Yard, Gower’s Walk Houses.

88. Zoar Chapel, Great Alie Warehouses, shops, and a
St. forge.

89. Pest-field, Spital Square St. Mary’s Church, &c.

90. Pest-field, east of the The Royal Mint.
Mint, and Cemetery of the
Convent of St. Mary of Grace

91. Pest-field, Petticoat Lane Built over.

92. Tower Burial-ground Demolished for Tower Bridge.
(outside the wall)

93. St. Mary Spital Priory Spital Square and district.

94. Pest-field or Plague-Pit Messrs. Kinloch’s new
in Gower’s Walk buildings.

95. Mill Yard Sabbatarian Railway by Leman St. Station.
Chapel

96. German Church, Hooper Railway.
Square.

LIMEHOUSE.

97. Roman Cemetery Sun Tavern Fields, Shadwell.
98. Friends’ Burial-ground Wapping Street.

MILE END OLD TOWN.

99. Rose Lane Chapel-ground East London Railway, public
house and shops close to
Stepney Station.

ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR, SOUTHWARK.

100. London Road Chapel-ground Tailor’s Shop in London Road,
east side.

101. Baptist Chapel-ground, Wilmott’s Buildings.
Sheer’s Alley

102. Zion Chapel, Borough Artisans’ Dwellings, Chapel
Court.

ST. SAVIOR’S.

103. Friends’ Burial-ground, London Bridge and Charing
Worcester Street Cross Railway.

104. Chapel Burial-ground, London Bridge and Charing
Ewer Street Cross Railway.

105. Baptist Chapel-ground, Houses at corner of Pepper
Pepper Street (Duke Street Street.
Park)

106. St. Margaret, Southwark Borough High Street and Market

ST. OLAVE’S.

107. St. Olave, Additional St. Thomas Street.
Ground

108. Flemish Burial-ground, Approach to London Bridge
Carter Lane Station.

109. Mazepond Baptist Chapel Guy’s Hospital Medical School.

110. Baptist Chapel, Dipping Fair Street or Charles Street,
Alley Horselydown

BERMONDSEY.

111. Roman Cemetery Snow Fields, Union Street, and
Deverell Street (Newington).

GREENWICH.

112. Roman Cemetery Neighbourhood of Blackheath.

WOOLWICH.

113. Bethlem Chapel-ground, Club House.
Charles Street

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