My apologies for any cross postings.

Patick Boylan recently replied to to a LIST request about MONEY. He gave the
address of  the BANK OF ENGLAND MUSEUM which is well worth an online visit.
They have a number of quirky stories including the one below

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THE BANK GIANT

When excavations were carried out in connection with the rebuilding of the
Bank during the interwar years a lead coffin, measuring 7 feet 6 inches, was
discovered below the old Garden Court which had once been the churchyard of St
Christopher-le-Stocks. It was found on 2 August 1933 at a depth of 8½ft at the
extreme eastern end of the old Garden Court. It bore a metal plate inscribed:-

"Mr William Danl. Jenkins. Died 24 March 1798, Aged 31".

William Daniel Jenkins was a former clerk who had been 6ft 7inches in
height. When he died, "of a decline", after 9 years in the Bank, his
friends, fearing that the corpse would be stolen by body snatchers
(upwards of 200 guineas had already been offered for it by "some
surgeons"), asked permission from the Directors to bury it in the Garden
Court. Jenkins himself was said to have been "considerably disturbed in his
mind before his death, from the apprehension that his body would be taken up
after burial for the use of the Surgeons". The request was granted and Jenkins
was buried "very early" one morning before business commenced.

An Act of 18 July 1923 provided that any human remains removed from the site
of the former churchyard of St Christopher's should be re-interred at Nunhead
Cemetery or any other consecrated burial ground. Accordingly the coffin was
removed to Nunhead (near Peckham) where it was placed in the catacomb, having
been found too large for the vaults.