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remains were laid in an ordinary
cemetery they would be dug up
by the resurrectionists.
As the Bank of England is
the greatest, so it is the most
beautiful of the city banks.
Since the removal of Temple Bar,
Child’s, which it adjoined, has
been rebuilt in a style I cannot
admire, the architect having fallen
into the very common mistake of
supposing that an excess of orna¬
is Soane’s, and was built in the
years after 1788. The semicircular
group of pillars at the north¬
western corner, facing Lothbury
and Princes Street, forms one of
the most pleasing architectural
effects in London. The Church of
St. Christopher was taken down in
1781, the last person to be interred
in the graveyard being a clerk
named Jenkins, who was six feet
six inches in height, and whose
relations were afraid that if his
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