St Sepulchre's Church - Entrance in Skinner Street.

St Sepulchre's Church - Entrance in Skinner Street, showing a vaulted porchway with a pick-axe and shovel lying on a stone slab on the floor. The church of St Sepulchre Without Newgate is now on Holborn Viaduct and Giltspur Street. Skinner Street ran NW from Giltspur Street to Farringdon Street: first formed in 1802 on the line of the present Holborn Viaduct to avoid the steep and winding ascent of Snow Hill, was named after Alderman Skinner, who inaugurated the scheme. It seems never to have been a flourishing thoroughfare and was removed for the formation of Holborn Viaduct, 1867. The church is formally known as Holy Sepulchre without Newgate and is the burial place of Roger Ascham, Governor John Smith of Virginia and the engraver, Sir Robert Peake. City: Fleet North.