The Curse Upon Mitre Square — page 72: what you’re looking at

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64 THE CURSE UPON MITRE SQUARE. once hallowed edifice with the curse of Cain, and a revenging power decreed that it should be destroved, and its site become the scene of other fearful crimes. Good men there always are, however, who carry on an unceasing struggle against evil, and in the relon of James I. an old Lord Mayor of London remembered with sorrow the destruction of Holy Trinity, and erected on a portion of its site the little church of St. James, Duke’s Place. St. James’s was indeed a poor affair in comparison with the former stately building, but we praise the spirit of the mayor who erected it, ‘‘as a Phoenix rising out of the old church,” and as the quaint old epitaph has it— ‘‘ He never ceased in industrie and care, - From Ruins to redeem the house of Praier.” St. James’s was destroyed in the eighteenth cen- tury ; 16 was, however, rebuilt, but finally disappeared about twenty years ago. The sketch shown on the opposite page was made when the rebuilt church had been destroyed. A small portion of the tower was still standing, sur- rounded by gravestones torn up and flung about in wild disorder. The church door was lying flat upon the ground, and bits of the pews were seen mixed up with fragments of window glass and brickbats. St. James’s Church stood over a part of the site of the nave of Holy Trinity. It is interesting to note that the whole neighbour- hood of the Tower to Aldgate once presented a suc- CeCe ngikel oxe xe) <3 (elo) m