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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 ornais Soane’s, and was built in the years after 1788. The semicircular group of pillars at the northwestern 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 en li Él "RK e [ZT we "ta BARINGS’ BANK, BISHOPSGATE STREET WITHIN sal ad be zó ee a or" i} = me i
