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sixty years later, and are spoken of in 1855 as two of 

 the finest lime trees in London. The fountain was put 

 up in 1852 by Mr. Thomas Hankey, then the governor. 

 The water for it came from the tanks belonging to the 

 Bank, supplied by an artesian well 330 feet deep, said to 

 be very pure, and free from lime. Perhaps that is why 

 the rhododendrons look so flourishing. Most^ of the 

 Bank, as is well known, was the work of the architect Sir 

 John Soane, but some of the portions built by Sir Robert 

 Taylor, before his death in 1788, when Soane was ap- 

 pointed to succeed him, are to be seen in the garden 

 court. It is said that the last person buried there 

 was a Bank clerk named Jenkins, who was 7^ feet 

 in height. He was allowed to rest there, as he feared 

 he might be disinterred on account of his gigantic 



proportions. , ^ 



Very different is the churchyard of St. Martin s, on 

 Ludgate Hill. It belongs to Stationers' Hall, and 

 although it boasts of one fine plane tree, is an untidy, 

 grimy, dingy little square. By permission of all the 

 necessary authorities, the coffins (480 in number) were 

 removed and reverently buried in Brookwood Cemetery 

 in 1893, a careful register of all the names and dates, 

 that could be deciphered, being kept. This having 

 been done, the earth was merely left in an irregular 

 heap round the tree, and no attempt has been made 

 to improve in any way the forsaken appearance of the 



^ This sketch does not aim at being a guide-book, 

 and it would only be tedious to enumerate the many 

 churchyards, without as well as within the City, which 

 of late years have been made worthy " gardens of sleep." 

 St Luke's, Old Street; St. Leonard's, Shoreditch ; 



