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old church being deftroyed by the fire in 1666, it was re¬ 
built, at the expenfe of the parilhioners, affified by a very 
liberal benefaction from fir John Langham ; and the pa- 
riih of St. Mary Magdalen, Milk-ftreet, was annexed to it. 
The prefent ftrufture is eighty-one feet long, fixty-eight 
broad, forty high to the roof, and the altitude of the ftee- 
ple is a hundred and thirty feet. The body is light¬ 
ed by two feries of windows; the lower ones large and 
uniform, and the upper fmall. At the eaft end is a pe¬ 
diment, with niches, fupported by Corinthian columns. 
The lower, which is lofty, is terminated by a baluftrade, 
with plain pinnacles; and within this baluftrade rifes a 
kind of lantern, which fupports the bafe of the fpire. 
A copper gridiron of 1 cwt. was put on the top of the 
fteeple for a vane, Aug. iS, 1732. 
In this neighbourhood were, before the fire of London, 
two pariih-churches, viz. that of St. Mary Magdalen, 
Milk-ftreet, belonging to Cripplegate ward; and that of 
Allhallows, Honey-lane, in this ward.— Honey-lane mar¬ 
ket now occupies the fite of tbefe two religious edifices, 
and is famous for the choice quality of the provisions 
brought to it. “ There is nothing,” as we often fay pro¬ 
verbially, “ like getting a good name;’’ and that has been 
long the cafe with this market, which, being in the high- 
feeding centre of the city, tiled to fervc the lord-mayor 
and aldermen with all forts of dainties; but, fince the 
fafltion of keeping country boxes a little way out of town, 
or handfome houfes in town, but at the other and falhion- 
able end of it, this market has loft a confiderable part 
of it cuftomers, and confequently of its fame. It,is the 
fmalleft market in the city, being only a hundred and 
ninety-three feet from eaft to weft, and ninety-feven from 
north to fouth In the centre is a fquare niarket-houfe,. 
Handing on pillars, with rooms over it, and & bell-tower 
in the middle. Here are alfo italls for butchers, fruiterers, 
&c. and the paffages into the market are inhabited by 
poulterers, and other dealers in provifions. 
St. Pancras, Soper-lane, flood on the north fide of Pan- 
cras-lane, and took its name from its dedication to St. 
Pancras, a young Phrygian nobleman, who for his adhe¬ 
rence to the Chriftian faith, fulfered martyrdom at Rome 
•under the emperor Dioclefian ; and from its vicinity to 
Soper-lane, now Queen-ftreet. It is a reftory, the pa¬ 
tronage of w hich was in the prior and canons of Canter¬ 
bury, till they granted the advowfon to Simon, the arch- 
bifhop, in the year 1365: fince which time, it has re¬ 
mained in the archbilhops of that fee. 
On the fame fide of Pancras-lane, a little further to the 
«aft, flood the parifti-church of St. Bennet Sherehog, which 
5 s faid to derive its name from one Benedict Shorne, a 
filhmonger, who rebuilt it. It was originally dedicated 
to St. Ofyth, a queen and martyr; but the ambition of 
the difciple of St. Peter was fuperior to his gallantry ; 
be therefore oufted the female faint, and procured the tu¬ 
telage of the church, by the name of St. Bennet, or Be¬ 
nedict, though his canonization is doubtful. The addi¬ 
tional epithet is a corruption of his furname, which was 
gradually changed to Shrog, Shorehog, and at length, to 
Sherehog. After the fire in 1666, this parifti was united 
to that of St. Stephen Wallbrook. It is a reCtory, the pa¬ 
tronage of which was in the prior and convent of St. 
Mary Overy’s, in Southwark, till their difi'olution, when 
it came to the crown ; in which it ftill continues. 
The church of St. Olave ftands on the weft fide of the 
Old Jewry. It is a very ancient foundation, and was ori¬ 
ginally called St. Olave Upwell, probably from a well under 
the eaft end, where, at this time, and for many years paft, 
has flood a pump for the ufe of the public; but this name 
afterwards gave way to that of Jewry, owing to the great 
number of Jews that took up their refidence in this neigh¬ 
bourhood. This parifti was a reClory, in the gift of the 
dean and chapter of St. Paul’s, till about the year n8i; 
when it was trauferred by them, with the chapel of St. 
Stephen, Coleman-ftreet, to the prior and convent of But- 
tey id Suffolk, and became a vicarage. At the fuppreffion 
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of that convent, the impropriation was feized by the 
crown, in whom it has continued to the prefent tim^. 
When-the old church was burned down, in 1666, the pa¬ 
rifti of St. Martin, Ironmonger-lane, was annexed to it; 
the patronage of which is alto in the crown. The prefent 
ftructure was erefted foon after the fire of London ; and 
is built partly of brick, and partly of ftone. It is feventy- 
eight feet long, twenty-four broad, thirty-fix high to the 
roof,and eighty-eight to the topof the towerand pinnacles,. 
The door is of the doric order, well proportioned, and 
covered with an arched pediment. The tower is very 
plain ; on the upper part rifes a cornice, fupported by 
fcrolls; and upon this a plain attic courfe. On the piilars 9 
at the corners, are placed the pinnacles upon balls; and 
each pinnacle is terminated at the top by a ball. The 
body of the church is well lighted, the floor paved with 
Purbeck,and the walls wainfcoted. The pulpit is enriched 
with carvings of cherubiros; the floor of the altar, on which 
the communion-table ftands, is paved with black and 
white marble, and in the front of the altar are the king’s 
arms. 
At the lower end of this church, over the gallery, are 
three curious pieces of painting, viz. 1. Queen Elizabeth, 
lying on a fine couch, with her regalia, under an arched 
canopy, on which are placed her arms. 2. King Charles I. 
a good likenefs, and the performance not unlike the work of 
the great painters in the 17tli century. 3. The figure of 
Time, with wings difplayed, a fcythe in his right hand, and 
an hour-glafs in his left; at his foot is a child afleep, and 
under him a fkeleton eight feet long. This allegory is 
eafily underftood ; but at what period of time it was paint¬ 
ed, and the name of the painter, we could not learn.—Thefts 
paintings are difpofed in the following manner: the alle¬ 
gory in the centre, the portrait of Charles on the fouth 
fide of it, and the canopy of Elizabeth on the north. The 
walls of this church prelent feveral other momentos of the 
dead. On one fide, before the pulpit, is a group of arms 
upon round Ihields taflefjlly raifed upon iron branches ; 
and the centre of the church is loaded with the heavy mafs 
of an immenfe call-iron ftove, mere ufeful than ornamental. 
The font, placed on the north fide, is of marble; final!, 
but well cut, and adorned with cherubs’ heads ; the cover 
is of wood, and curioully carved. 
It was in this parilh, in the houfe of Robert Large, 
mayor of London in 1439, that William Caxton, the ce¬ 
lebrated printer, ftrved his apprentictlhip as a mercer. 
His mailer, in the following year, left him thirty-four 
marks, as a teftimonial of his fidelity. 
At the north-weft corner of the ftreet is a public houle, 
above which we remarked a head of Minerva placed in a 
round, niche, but for what reafon no body could inform 
us. Regarding it as a curiofity, we have given a repre- 
fentation of it on Plate VII£*. at fig. 5.—A little below, 
alfo in the brick wall, we find a fmall but neat carving of 
the Cordwainers’ arms. 
The firlt Jewilh fiynagogue erefled in London Hood 
near the north-eaft corner of the Old Jewry. It was de- 
ftroyed in the year 1262, at which time feven hundred 
Jews were murdered, and their goods fpoiled, by the citi¬ 
zens of London. The fite thereof was given by queen 
Eleanor to the friars called De Penitentia Jefn, or De 
Sacca, an order of begging friars (56 Henry III.) fio 
called from their being clothed in l'ackcloth. In procefs 
of time, it was converted to a private houfe, wherein fe¬ 
veral mayors refided, and kept their mayoralty. In the 
days of Stow it was a tavern, and had for its fign the 
Windmill. After various alterations, the place is now 
partly covered with a good private dwelling-houfe in 
front, and backward with a handlbme capacious meeting- 
lioufe of the prelbyterian denomination; and with two 
alms-houfes in Windmill-court, lor nine poor widows of 
armourers and braziers, founded by Mr. Tindal, and en¬ 
dowed with fix Ihiliings per quarter, and nine bulhels of 
coals annually; and with twenty Ihiliings per quarter to 
thofe widows who are unable to work.—Near this fpot 
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