St Sepulchre-without-Newgate

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Hard by Holborn Viaduct was St. Sepulchre's Church (repaired by Wren), a fair example of Perpendicular architecture, with a fine pinnacled tower, from which a dismal knell went forth whenever an execution took place in Newgate opposite.

Formerly, a parochial official stood under the walls of the prison on the night preceding the hangings, and, ringing a small hand-bell, recited a verse that reminded the condemned of their coming fate; and in the days when the executions were at Tyburn, the criminal on his way thither was presented with a nosegay at this church porch.

The interior of St. Sepulchre's had been restored by 1900 in a very handsome fashion, and the organ, a splendid one by Harris (1677), brought up to date.

In the choir lay Captain John Smith, said to have married Pocahontas, a famous Indian princess.

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