St. Paul’s Charnel House

St. Paul’s Charnel House was located on the north side of St. Paul’s Churchyard (Stow 1633, sig. 2H4v). It was founded in 1282 out of rents of shops built without the wall of the churchyard and pulled down in 1549 (Harben). A chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary was built over the former site of the charnel house.
St. Paul’s Charnel House was eventually emptied into what became Bone Hill or Bunhill at the end of the seventeenth century.

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