Mitre Square is a small square in the City of London. It measures about 77 feet (23 m) by 80 feet (24 m) and is connected via three passages with Mitre Street to the south west, to Creechurch Place to the north west and, via St James's Passage (formerly Church Passage), to Duke's Place to the north east.
Eddowes' murder on the site of the old monastery is ascribed to an ancient curse in a contemporary penny dreadful entitled The Curse Upon Mitre Square A.D. 1530–1888 by J.F. Brewer.[3][4]
One Mitre Square
A 19-storey, 79m-high office development is proposed for the square, known as One Mitre Square.[5][6]
Image gallery
1938 photograph of Mitre Square.The body of Catherine Eddowes was discovered close to the fence seen at the centre of this image on 30 September 1888
'Ripper's Corner' in Mitre Square, scene of Eddowes' murder.
The Whitechapel murders – Mitre Square is the red dot to the bottom left corner.
Mitre Square, viewed from near the site of the Eddowes murder.