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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 7J 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 care f u l 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 
place. 
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 44 gardens of sleep.” 
St. Luke’s, Old Street; St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch; 
