BURIAL-GROUNDS 
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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 
