Saint James' Gardens
Sunken garden in a former sandstone quarry, with rock-cut catacombs, ramps and a running spring.
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This guide to Saint James' Gardens in Liverpool starts at a small inscribed plaque above a spring that quarry workers struck in the seventeen-seventies. It follows the sandstone quarry, the Anglican joint stock company that turned the worked-out hollow into a cemetery, and the town Corporation that bought into it. Along the way you'll meet a surgeon who prescribed the water for low spirits and weak eyes. Best heard standing by the archway on the east wall, close enough to hear the water.
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