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and thirty-three in height to the roof. It is a Gothic 
flrudture, with a plain body and large windows; and the 
wall is crowned with a fquare battlement. It has ahand- 
fome tower, ninety-fix feet in height, divided into four 
ftages lupported by gothic pi la tiers, each crowned with 
its own cornice. In the lower ftage, one window occu¬ 
pies the middle of the fpace, both in front and on the Tides, 
the bars forming a double feries of gothic arches; the 
pilafters are carried up (Iraight at the lides, the remainder 
of the fpace being left plain. The fecond ftage is lighted 
by port-hole windows; and the other two ftages have long 
gothic windows. The fummit of the tower is edged with 
battlement work, plain and clofe, and its verge is crowned 
with handfome pinnacles, one at each corner and one in 
the middle of each face. The patronage of this church 
was originally in the abbot and convent of St. Alban’s, 
in Hertford (hire, from whom it parted into the hands of 
the matter, brethren, and lifters, of the hofpital of St. 
James, at Weftminfter. How long they poiTetfed it does 
not appear; hut Henry VI. granted it to the provoft and 
fellows of Eton college, which was founded by him; and 
it has remained in them ever ftnce. 
When this church was re-erefted after the fire of Lon¬ 
don, the parilh of St. Olave, Silver-ltreet, the church of 
which was alfo burnt, was annexed to it. The parilh of 
St. Olave, Silver-ftreet, is a reftory, the church whereof 
flood at the fouth-welt corner of Silver-ftreet. It was a 
fmall church, the patronage of which was always in the 
dean and chapter of St. Paul’s, who, ftnce the fire, have 
prefented alternately with the provoft and fellows of Eton 
college. The fite of the church is now a burying-place 
for the parilhioners. 
Farther fouth, on the weft of Wood-ftreet, Hands the 
parilh church of St. Michael, Wood-ftreet. This church 
is of fome antiquity, as appears by John de Eppewell be¬ 
ing reftor thereof in the year 1328. The old church being 
deftroyed by the fire of London in 1666, the prefent ftruc- 
ture was fin idled a few years after, and the parifh of St. 
Mary Staining annexed to it. The ealt end of this build¬ 
ing is ornamented with four Ionic columns, raifed upon 
a continued pedeftal, with arches between, and fupport- 
ing a handfome pediment, in the middle of which is a 
circular window. Between the columns are three upright 
arched windows that fill the whole fpace. The reft of 
the body is plain; and the windows are fo high, that the 
doors open under them. The tower confilts of three 
plain ftages, with large windows, from the uppennoft 
of which rifes a fmall fquare courfe, the foundation of 
the bafe of the turret. The bafe is cut away from the 
breadth of the tower, gradually to the diameter of the 
turret, which is plain but handfome; and from its top 
rifes a ball that fupports the vane. It is fixty-three feet 
Jong, forty-two broad, thirty-one high, to the roof, and 
the altitude of the tower is ninety feet. The patronage 
of this rectory was anciently in the abbot and convent 
of St. Alban’s, in whom it continued till the fuppreftion 
of their monaftery, when, coming to the crown, it was 
fold, with the appurtenances, by Henry VIII. in the year 
*544, to William Barwell, who, in the year 1588, conveyed 
the fame to John Marfli and others, in truft lor the parifti, 
in which it ftill continues. 
On the weft fide of Wood-ftreet is Maiden-lane ; on the 
fouth lide of which is Wax-chandlers’ Hall, a handfome 
modern brick building, well fitted up for the ufe of the 
company. Over the centre window, on the north fide, 
are the arms of the company; and, over the two end win¬ 
dows, a bee-hive, carved in ftone. 
Addle-ftreet, which is on the eaft fide of Wood-ftreet, 
is fuppofed to have taken its name from the Saxon word 
adel, “ noble,” on account of its vicinity to Athelftan or 
Adelftan Palace, juft noticed; but we can hardly affent 
to this etymology, as we have Noble-ftreet itfelf not far 
off. We are therefore inclined to refer to the original 
fenfe of the word—“ vain, empty,” an allufion perhaps to 
the wealth which the other ftreets contained. 
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Halls are plentiful hereabouts.—At the corner ofStaining. 
lane ftands Haberdafhers’ Hall, a very handfome and anci ¬ 
ent brick building, fpacious and lofty, and paved with mar¬ 
ble and Purbeclc ftone. At the weft end a ftcreen beau¬ 
tifully ornamented with Corinthian pilafters deferwee the 
attention of the curious.—Not far from this is Plafterers’ 
Hall; and on the weft fide of the rtre-et is the hall belong¬ 
ing to the company of Parifti Clerks, with the arms neatly 
carved and painted over the door. 
On the north fide of Silver-ftreet, d i re cl I y oppofite the 
cemetery of St. Olave’s parifti, is Monkwell-ftreet, which 
took its name from being the relidenc?' of the monks oft 
St. James’s hermitage, and from a well belonging to them. 
—On tire weft fide of this ftreet, near the centre, is Bar¬ 
bers’ Hall. This building was defigned by that great ar¬ 
chitect Inigo Jones ; and, though of a fimple coultruftion, 
is very elegant, and confidered as one of his matter-pieces. 
The grand entrance from Monkwellrftreet is enriched 
with the company’s arms, large fruit,'and other decora¬ 
tions. The court-room has a fret-work ceiling, and is 
adorned -with feveral beautiful paintings, particularly a 
very handfome piece, by Hans Holbein, of king Hen¬ 
ry VIII. uniting the barbers and lurgeons into one com¬ 
pany; it contains portraits of eighteen of the moil emi¬ 
nent members of the company at that time. The thea¬ 
tre belonging to the hall, at the time thefe companies were 
united, contained fome chirurgical curiolities ; but, ftnce 
the barbers and furgeons have been made feparate bodies, 
the latter have taken thofe curiolities away, and the thea¬ 
tre has ever fince been Ihut up and deferted. 
Nearly oppofite to this hall are the alms-houfes, founde 1 
in the year 1575, by fir Ambrofe Nicholas, knt. lord- 
mayor and falter, for twelve widows of members of that 
company—an excellent inftitution, which, however, is 
but one among a great number of ettablifhments of that 
humane and benevolent kind. 
Lamb’s Chapel, in a court of that name at the north 
corner of Monkwell-ftreet, was founded as early as the 
time of king Edward I. when it was dedicated to St. 
James, and diftingui'hed by the name of St. James’s Cha¬ 
pel, or the Hermitage 011 the Wall, from its being fituaied 
io near to London Wall. This hermitage belonged to 
the abbot and convent of Gerondon, in Leicefterfhhe, 
who kept two Ciftertian monks of their own order in this 
place. At the general diffolution of religious houles, it 
was granted by Henry VIII. to William Lamb, a gentle¬ 
man of his chapel, and afterwards a cloth worker "of this 
city; who bequeathed it, with his houfe and appurte¬ 
nances, to the value of thirty pounds per annum, to the 
Clothworkers’ Company, for paying a minilterto read di¬ 
vine fervice in this chapel, on Sundays, Wednefdays, and 
Fridays, and to relieve a certain number of poor people 
at different times throughout the year. The company of 
Clothworkers have four fennons preached to them annu¬ 
ally, in this chapel, on four principal feltivals in the year, 
viz. the Annunciation of the Bleffed Virgin, the fealt of 
St. John Baptift, of St. Michael the Archangel, and of St. 
Thomas the Apoftle. On thefe days, they relieve twelve 
poor men, and as many women, with one fhilling each, 
in money ; and, at Michaelmas, they give to each of them 
a gown, a ftiift, and a pair of (lioes. Hence this chapel 
lias acquired the appellation of Lamb’s Chapel. 
Oppofite to Lamb’s-chapel-court is a final! ftreet, called 
Hart-.ttreet, on the north fide of which is a charitable 
foundation, by Mr. Robert Rogers, leather-feller and 
merchant-adventurer, for fix ancient couple, who have 
each two rooms, and receive four pounds per annum in 
money. 
In Wood-ftreet are three very confiderable inns for 
ftages and waggons—the Cattle, the Bell, and Crof's Keys. 
At the weft corner of Wood-ftreet~and Cheapfide, ther-e 
remain four old lioufes, particularly remarkable for beir.£ 
much lower than the others on the fame fide, and for ie- 
vcral ornaments in ftone, among- which we remark tw® 
curious old mafks over the windows in the centre. Be- 
