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Westward from St. Pancras the next large church- 

 yard is that of Marylebone, and further to the north 

 is St. John's Wood burial-ground. Its large trees and 

 shaded walks are familiar to the thousands who go 

 every year to Lord's Cricket Ground. Another large 

 one, still more westward, now used as a garden, is 

 Paddington. The small green patch round St. Mary's 

 Church, and a large cemetery beyond, together make 

 over 4 acres. All round London these spaces are being 

 used, and in most cases little has been done to upset the 

 ground — among the more prominent are St. George's, 

 Hanover Square, in Bayswater ; St. John's, Waterloo 

 Road ; Brixton Parish Church, with a row of yew 

 trees ; Fulham Parish Church, with Irish yews, and tall, 

 closely clipped hollies ; St. Mary's, Upper Street, Isling- 

 ton, and many others. Some are large spaces, such as 

 St. John-at-Hackney, which covers 3 acres, and in it 

 stands the tower of the old church, the present very 

 large church which dominates it being in the Georgian 

 style of 1797. 



Stepney is the largest of all these disused church- 

 yards, and covers 7 acres. It was opened as a public 

 garden in 1887. The beautiful old Perpendicular 

 church of St. Dunstan, with its carved gargoyles and 

 fine old tower, which escaped the fire that destroyed the 

 roof, stands on a low level, with the large square stone 

 graves, of which there are a great quantity, on higher 

 mounds round it. The central path, the old approach 

 to the church, has trees on either side, and runs straight 

 across the graveyard, and is as peaceful-looking as the 

 walk in many a country churchyard. The way the lay- 

 ing out as a garden has been carried out is unfortunate 

 in many respects. The number of the big, stone, box-like 



