Here, at what used to be called Kent Lane and is now Beech Street, British Gen. Hugh Percy made a critical and unexpected turn to the left. Leaving the main road (now called Massachusetts Avenue), he led his troops towards Bunker Hill, the Charleston neck, and the safety of British ships, rather than heading on the expected route to Cambridge and Harvard Square, where Colonial militia had removed the bridge over the Charles River and waited to ambush the Royal troops. St. James’s Episcopal Church on the corner was built in 1889.