Saint James' Gardens

Saint James' Gardens sits in a deep, rectangular stone ravine, sunken well below the surrounding street level. Before this became a public park in the nineteen-sixties, it served as a cemetery for the adjacent Anglican Cathedral. Workers carved the space from an abandoned stone quarry in the eighteen-twenties, hauling out the rock used to build much of early nineteenth-century Liverpool. Deep within the earth, over fifty-seven thousand people remain buried here beneath the grass, the gravestones, and the winding pedestrian paths.