churchyard

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In one of his best chapters, Laoutaris — an associate professor at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon — zeroes in on the 28 bookshops located in St. Paul’s Cross Churchyard.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023

A team of 100 archaeologists exhumed the remains of 3,300 people from the site in the New Churchyard of Bethlam, and reinterred them in an island in the Thames estuary.

From New York Times • May 14, 2022

Widow Penny Robinson bought a double plot in St Leonard's Churchyard with the wish to be buried alongside her husband Trevor.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2022

Churchyard graves were double-stacked, then abandoned in favor of plague pits.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2020

St. Paul’s Churchyard, in the days of Colet and in the infancy of his valuable endowment, was beyond question not only a place of great resort, but a favourite seat of the booksellers.

From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew