258 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 



Alphage, London Wall, and Allhallows-in-the-Wall, 

 where the little gardens by the wall have been formed 

 with a view to preserving it. The most picturesque 

 is St. Giles's, Cripplegate, where Milton is, buried. The 

 graveyard is large, and the ground rises above the 

 footpath, which was made across it some thirty years 

 ago, to a bastion of the wall, of rough stones and 

 flint, which is in its old state, although part of the 

 wall was rebuilt in 1803. There has been no attempt 

 here to make it a resting-place for the living, although 

 it is used as a thoroughfare. 



Few people who have not entered the Bank of Eng- 

 land would suspect it of enclosing an extremely pretty 

 garden. There the inner courtyard possesses tail lime 

 trees, gay rhododendrons, and a cool splashing fountain, 

 with ferns and iris glistening in the spray. It is quite 

 one of the most delightfully fresh and peaceful corners 

 on a hot summer's day, and carries one in imagination to 

 Italy. Yet this is but another of the many old City 

 churchyards. The parish of St. Christopher-le-Stocks 

 was absorbed, with five other parishes, into St. Margaret's, 

 Lothbury, in 178 1. Some of the tombs, and pictures of 

 Moses and Aaron, were removed from it, and are still 

 to be seen in St. Margaret's, which is crowded with 

 monuments from all six churches. The Bank was 

 already in possession of most of the land within the 

 parish, and by the Act of Parliament of 1781, the church 

 and churchyard became part of the Bank premises, which 

 cover nearly three acres. The church site was built 

 over, but the graveyard became the garden. This 

 enclosure at first was a simple grass plot, as shown in 

 an engraving dated 1790. The lime trees may have 

 been planted soon after, as they appear as large trees 



