GRAVES ON BANK SITE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 450, 2 January 1934, Page 2

GRAVES ON BANK SITE

VICTIMS OF GREAT PLAGUE London, Dec. 22. After four months’ work, about 800 bodies have been removed from the site of the Bank of England and reiuterred in Nunhoad Cemetery. During the recent rebuilding of the bank the discovery of some bones led to a complete investigation, revealing the remains of 800 bodies, some of which were from the graveyard of St. Christopher’s Church, which was demolished in 1781 to make way for a, previous extension of the bank. Some of the victims,now removed were victims of the plague. The dates on many headstones' were indecipherable. but none bore a date earlier than 1665. One body exhumed was that of William Jenkins, a giant, whose coffin was 7£ feet long. The bank’s records show that he was a clerk there.