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St Sepulchre-without-Newgate

  • English National Heritage: Church Of St Sepulchre

  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1840/07/06 Charles Dickens Witness Henry Burnett, Charles Dickens, Fred Dickens and Daniel MacLise arrive outside of Newgate prison (razed) in anticipation of the hanging of Francois Courvoisier.
1840/07/06 William Makepeace Thackeray Witness As the death-bell begins to toll at St Sepulchre for Courvoisier, the crowd changes: I don't know if it was the bell I heard - but a dreadful quick feverish kind of jangling noise mingled with the noise of the people, and lasted two minutes. WMT
1840/07/06 Richard Monckton Milnes Witness Richard M Milnes and William M Thackeray arrive at the gallows: "There it stands, black and ready, jutting out from a little door in the prison." - WMT
1840/07/06 In less than 2 minutes, Francois Courvoisier dies by hanging outside Newgate Prison (razed). The surrounding roads from Giltspur Street to Ludgate Hill are jammed with c 40,000 people. London's population is less than 2 million.

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Particulars for St Sepulchre-without-Newgate:
Area of Significance Architecture
Sight Category Building
Building Type Church
Area of Significance Religion
Historic Use Religious Property

Data
English National Heritage List: 1064640



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