On the way to the gallows... - a photo on Flickriver

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from the Newgate Prison to the gallows in Tyburn (in the current  area of Marble Arch, Hyde Park), the convicts had an ancient right to be given a drink of beer dispensed by a charity run by this church near the Centre Point London...
from the Newgate Prison to the gallows in Tyburn (in the current area of Marble Arch, Hyde Park), the convicts had an ancient right to be given a drink of beer dispensed by a charity run by this church near the Centre Point London...

From Wikipedia (thank you Steve for jogging my memory about the name of the church):
church was built in 1730-34, designed by the architect Henry Flitcroft in the Palladian style (the first English church in that style). Flitcroft had already assisted Lord Burlington in building Burlington House in Piccadilly (now the Royal Academy) and Chiswick House, and went on to design Woburn Abbey, the seat of the Duke of Bedford, one of the principal landowners in this part of London. The model he made so that parishioners could see what they were commissioning, can still be seen in the church's north transept. At the same time the elegant Vestry House was built, for meetings of the Vestry, the council of laypeople and clergy who managed parish affairs.


Hogarth's Noon from Four Times of the Day, showing the church in the background[1]
With the expansion of London in this period, the parish's population grew enormously in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, exceeding 30,000 by 1831. The "rookeries" between the church and Great Russell Street, and the area called Seven Dials, were amongst the most notorious in London for poverty and squalour, and were a centre for prostitution and crime (the area had its own lock-up, St Giles's Roundhouse and even spawned its own thieves' cant, St Giles's Greek). Saint Giles was also the last church on the route from the Newgate Prison to the gallows at Tyburn, and the churchwardens paid for the condemned to have a drink at the next door pub, the Angel, before they went to be hanged. The dissolute nature of the area is evocatively captured in Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz. 
   

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