A small package containing a brick arrived on the doorstep of Old North Church in March. “You didn’t touch it, did you?”Closeup of the letter and returned "cursed" brick and the letter sent to Old North Church. Boston’s oldest standing church, Old North continued crypt burials for over a century, with the latest coffin plate dated 1872 — 22 years after Boston barred indoor burials in 1850. Melissa Macon of Austin, Texas, was visiting Old North Church this week with her husband, Ryan, when she saw the brick. Inside of the columbarium in the Old North Church.