St Patrick’s Catholic Cemetery

Forgotten ghosts of another London fill this place. Among the lavishly Catholic statues of crying angels and crumbling monks drift the memories of close to 200,000 former Londoners. From factory workers to war heroes, they stuffed them in tight for almost a century… until they ran out of soil. Look carefully and you’ll find the graves of Mary Jane Kelly, Jack the Ripper’s final victim, and Timothy Evans, mistakenly executed in 1950 for the murder of his wife and infant daughter before it turned out to be his neighbour, the serial killer John Christie. Built in 1868, it is one of only two Catholic cemeteries in London. And while it’s not one of London’s so-called ‘Magnificent Seven’, it’s no less atmospheric.