258 LONDON PARKS © GARDENS 
Alphage, London Wall, and All hallo ws-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 tall 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 1781. 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 
