216. St. Saviour’s Churchyard.—This ancient ground has been
often enlarged and curtailed, and at times was used as a
marketplace. What now exists is about ½ acre on the south side of
the church, which is at present under restoration.
217. Additional ground for St. Saviour’s, called the College Yard or
St. Saviour’s Almshouse Burial-ground, Park Street.—This existed
before 1732. Size, ¼ acre. The London, Brighton and South Coast
Railway goes over it on arches, and it is now the store-yard of
Messrs. Stone and Humphries, builders. Most of it is roofed in, but it
is not actually covered with buildings.
218. Additional ground for St. Saviour’s, called the Cross Bones,
Redcross Street.—This was made, at least 250 years ago, “far from
the parish church,” for the interment of the low women who
frequented the neighbourhood. It was subsequently used as the
pauper ground, and was crowded to excess. Nevertheless two
schools were built in it. The remaining piece is about 1,000 square
yards. It has frequently been offered for sale as a building site, and
has formed the subject for much litigation. It is made a partial use of
by being let for fairs, swings, &c. It was sold as a building site in
1883, but, not having been used by 1884, the sale was declared
(under the Disused Burial-grounds Act) null and void.
219. Christ Church Churchyard, Blackfriars Bridge Road.—1½
acres. This dates from about 1737, and has been enlarged. An infant
school was built in it. It is closed, and not laid out.
220. Deadman’s Place Burial-ground. Deadman’s Place is now
called Park Street.—This ground was originally used for the
interment of large numbers of victims to the plague. Then it became
the graveyard of an adjoining Independent chapel, and was
extensively used for the interment of ministers, being a sort of
Bunhill Fields for South London. Now it is merely one of the yards
over which trucks run on rails, in the middle of the large brewery
belonging to Messrs. Barclay and Perkins, about ½ acre in extent. It
existed as a burial-ground in 1839, but not, I believe, in 1843.