Hawksmoor's Christ Church Spitalfields is very close to Wieden + Kennedy Towers, our swanky offices in London's fashionable east end.

I'm currently reading Peter Ackroyd's London Under and came across this interesting snippet of local info:

The graveyard of Christ Church, Spitalfields, was opened for business in 1729 and closed in 1859; between those dates some 68,000 people were somehow buried in the straitened space. At the time of excavation in 1993 soft tissue was still preserved on some of the bodies. Fears were expressed of a miasma overwhelming the archaeologists but they were misplaced.

Ackyroyd doesn't record what was done with those 68,000 (68,000 buried in that little church garden?!) exhumed bodies.