English poem
London
by Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920)
St. Peter-ad-Vincula: P. 161.
St. Peter-ad-Vincula is the ancient and sadly appropriate dedication of the Church near the Beauchamp Tower and the site of the scaffold. The vaults are under the chancel.
York Stairs: P. 169.
Inigo Jones' Water Gate, standing on the Embankment at the foot of Villiers Street, Strand, now a long way from the river, is still called York Stairs. It is the sole surviving appanage of the great town-house of the seventeenth-century Dukes of Buckingham.
The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS U . S . A