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Stepney Church

In the Georgian period Stepney church was a capacious and respectable structure composed of stone and flint, with a square tower at the west end. It dated from the fourteenth century. For some reason the "Spectator" liked from time to time to print verses from the tombstones in the churchyard. As an example, in the Regency period it printed the "somewhat light, but nervous" epitaph below:

Here lies the body of Daniel Saul,
Spitalfields weaver, and that's all.

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