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A medieval church in Cloak Lane
off of Cannon Street, built by parish wealth in a
Perpendicular style in 1412, and elaborated from the same
source in 1612. It did not survive the Great Fire, and
was not rebuilt. But its burial ground continued in use,
and this was a populous parish. Closed for burials in the
1860s, these were cleared in 1884 for the eastern
extension of the District Railway, today part of the
Underground's District and Circle lines. Rather than
reinterring the remains in the new City of London
Cemetery, the City took the decision to place them in a
vault above the new railway, and a monument set into an
alcove in Cloak Lane remembers this. Sacred to the
Memory of the Dead interred in the Ancient Church and
Churchyard of St John the Baptist upon Walbrook during
Four Centuries, reads the inscription, the
Formation of the District Railway having necessitated the
Destruction of the Greater Part of the Churchyard, all
the Human Remains contained therein were carefully
collected and reinterred in a Vault beneath this Monument
1884. As you stand reading it you can hear, and
feel, the trains hurtling through just below your feet.
An 1869 parish boundary marker survives, reset on a
modern building in Cannon Street not far off.
Simon Knott, December 2015
location: Cloak Lane, Cannon Street EC4R
2/030
status: stone marker only
access: visible from road
   
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