The Polygon
Sia,--Your correspondent enquiring as to the existence of the .Polygon will easily find it if he walks from St. Pancras Church towards Camden Town. Though much altered from Dickens's .day, the Roman Catholic church and school, familiar to him in his early days in Camden Town, are still there. (An excellent illustration is given opposite p. 46 in Chapman and Hall's edition of Forster's Life, 1911, Vol. I,)
One suspects that the clock Mr. Lowten heard was probably an Anglican one--that of St. Mary's, Somers Town, which, as Seymour Street Chapel, also played its part in the youthful experience of the future novelist, and, like its Roman Catholic neighbour, remains very much the same today.—Yours faithfully, J. A. L. HARE:WAS! I E. 2a The Abbey, Carlisle.
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