London’s pocket parks: Christ Church, Spitalfields, E1

Sitting next to Spitalfields dominant church is a small public park that’s a remnant of a much larger graveyard that used to sit to the south of the church.
The church itself was built in 1714-29 to a design by the prolific architect, Nicholas Hawksmoor, and as you would expect for a church, a large graveyard was laid out along the southern edge of the church.
You can see the church and its graveyard in this R Horwood map of 1799.
R Horwood map 1799
Today the former graveyard is clearly vi