Comments on: In City Churchyards https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/07/10/in-city-churchyards-x/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:11:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Thud https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/07/10/in-city-churchyards-x/#comment-1157820 Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:11:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=158806#comment-1157820 A wonderful place with some less worthy additions.

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/07/10/in-city-churchyards-x/#comment-1157663 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:21:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=158806#comment-1157663 What wonderful and inspiring places are these!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Jill Leman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/07/10/in-city-churchyards-x/#comment-1157431 Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:10:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=158806#comment-1157431 Inspiring piece plus photos – reminded me I should get out there when the City is quiet
and draw – thank you

]]> By: Jim McDermott https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/07/10/in-city-churchyards-x/#comment-1157409 Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:17:34 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=158806#comment-1157409 … and may I also make an honourable mention of St Botolph’s graveyard, Aldersgate, which, although stolen from its church, still provides blessed relief to Londoners as Postmans’ Park, always shaded by the high buildings that surround it?

]]> By: pauline taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/07/10/in-city-churchyards-x/#comment-1157386 Mon, 10 Jul 2017 11:03:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=158806#comment-1157386 There is so much potential for a book on this subject I agree but where would one begin it would be a monumental (pardon the pun) task, I think several volumes would be required. Everything about the subject fascinates me; the history and the connections with famous people, the impact of the plagues and the destruction caused by the great fire and the blitz, but most of all I enjoy the visual pleasure of the juxtaposition of all the lush greenery and stonework which always inspires the artist in me. I think if you started now this would be a lifetime’s work for you GA but regular updates would enthral your loyal readers and especially this one who has so many ancestors baptized, married and buried in so many of these churches and churchyards. When can you start?

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/07/10/in-city-churchyards-x/#comment-1157377 Mon, 10 Jul 2017 10:20:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=158806#comment-1157377 Ah…….the “three graces”: Architecture, history and Mother Nature.
You’ve taken us on a beautiful bucolic stroll this morning.
Many thanks, as ever.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/07/10/in-city-churchyards-x/#comment-1157375 Mon, 10 Jul 2017 09:01:22 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=158806#comment-1157375 Greetings from Boston,

GA, thanks for yet another great piece on London, hitting on my favorites – Wren, Shakespeare, Peyps, and Dickens. Indeed, the novelist was wont to roam the city for miles many nights while working out his intricate plots.

Love the street names too – Mincing Lane, Seething Lane, and Love Lane among others. I can imagine how quiet the City is on weekends.

I agree with Poet John above that the subject would lend itself to an excellent book.

]]> By: John Barrett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/07/10/in-city-churchyards-x/#comment-1157364 Mon, 10 Jul 2017 06:27:16 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=158806#comment-1157364 City churchyards text/pics today is outstanding packed with interest. I liked the piece on St Olave’s with Sam Pepys a real winner. Didn’t realize Dickens loved this churchyard too, I liked his visit trigger. Enough material must now be amassed for a new book on churchyards and their environs. With lots of famous people shown. This book would appeal to our overseas friends and fellow bloggers after all, its in away a social history of London. Poet John PS – would contribute to a start up for such a book.

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/07/10/in-city-churchyards-x/#comment-1157357 Mon, 10 Jul 2017 05:10:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=158806#comment-1157357 Thanks for showing these wonderful Churchyards, which were all places where I spent much time when I was living in London. Valerie

]]> By: Jim McDermott https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/07/10/in-city-churchyards-x/#comment-1157345 Mon, 10 Jul 2017 03:00:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=158806#comment-1157345 GA, your itinerary mirrors my former weekend jaunts almost precisely! The City is wonderfully peaceful then (which is sad too, reflecting how far commerce has supplanted human intercourse there), and its churches and churchyards are pure delights. But St Dunstan’s was one of my favourite weekday lunchtime oases also.

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