CHURCH OF ST. DIONIS-BACKCHURCH, FENCHURCH STREET. HELEN, BISHOPSGATE STREET. MICHAEL PATERNOSTER ROYAL, THAMES STREET. ALL-HALLOWS THE GREAT, THAMES STREET. ST. MARGARET PATTENS, FENCHURCH STREET. MARY, ABCHURCH LANE. ANDREW, HOLBORN. PETER, SAFFRON HILL. MICHAEL, QUEENHITHE. MARY LE BOW, CHEAPSIDE. TRINITY CHURCH, GOUGH SQUARE. CHURCH OF ST. MARTIN-OUTWICH, BISHOPSGATE. EDMUND THE KING, LOMBARD STREET. MARY-WOOLNOTH, LOMBARD STREET. OLAVE, JEWRY. SWITHIN, CANNON STREET. MAGNUS, LONDON BRIDGE. CHURCH OF St. Mildred, BREAD STReet. LAWRENCE, JEWRY. MARGARET, LOTHBURY. JAMES, GARLICK HITHE. PETER LE POOR, BROAD STREET. BOTOLPH, ALDERSGATE STREET. ALL-HALLOWS, LOMBARD STREET. CHURCH OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE LESS, SMITHFIEld. BENE'T-FINK, THREADNEEDLE STREET. ALL-HALLOWS-STAINING, MARK LANE. LONDON WALL. ST. ANDREWS, BY THE WARDROBE. ETHELBURGA, BISHOPSGATE STREET. MARY-AT-HILL, THAMES STREET. BRIDE, FLEET STREET. CATHERINE COLEMAN, FENCHURCH STREET. ANN AND AGNES, ALDERSGATE STREET. BENE'T, GRACECHURCH STReet. MICHAEL-BASSISHAW, BASINGHALL STREET, MARY-ALDERMARY, BOW LANE. MARTIN, LUDGATE STREET. MATTHEW, FRIDAY STREET. GEORGE, BOTOLPH LANE. ALPHAGE, LONDON WALL. STEPHEN, COLEMAN STREET. WALBROOK. BOTOLPH, BISHOPSGATE STREET. MILDRED, POULTRY. MARY MAGDALEN, OLD FISH STREET. PETER, CORNHILL. JAMES, DUKE'S PLACE. BOTOLPH, ALDGATE. ST. VEDAST'S, alias FOSTER, FOSTER LANE. STOW mentions this church merely as "St. Fauster's," and says, that the lane in which it stands received its designation therefrom; but it does not appear that there was at any time a saint in the Romish calendar who bore the name of Foster. Newcourt imagines, that the reverse of this supposition may be nearer to the truth; namely, that the church received this its second name, in consequence of standing in Foster Lane. Vedast, to whom he says the church was dedicated, was Bishop of Arras, in the province of Artois, at the end of the fifth, or beginning of the sixth century; and there are many legends of miracles supposed to have been performed by him during his life time. The original church was built probably at a very early time ;--Walter de London was presented to it in 1308; and William Trist, "Selerar to the king," was buried there in 1425.1 At the end of the fifteenth century, Henry Coote, of the Goldsmith's Company, and sheriff of London, built a chapel here, which was called St. Dunstan's; and one hundred years afterwards, (that is, about the year Stow's "Survey," Strype's 1 Newcourt's "Repertorium," Vol. I. p. 563. Edit. B. iii. p. 127. Stow mentions the burial here of "Agnes, Wife to William Milborne," in 1500; but in the following inscription from " Weever's S 1600,) the whole church was rebuilt. By the great fire of London, however, the new edifice was nearly destroyed, little remaining but the walls, and the tower. The present building was erected under the direction of Sir Christopher Wren, by whom the tower was commenced in the year 1694, (until which time the previous tower stood;) and the whole was completed in the year 1698. After the fire, the Parish of St. Michael Le Quern, (a corruption, if we may trust Stow, of St. Michael at the Corn, or ad Bladum,-so called, because a market for corn had been held there formerly,) was added to that of St. Vedast, the church of the former parish, having also been destroyed by the conflagration already alluded to. In the Vestry-room attached to the north side of the present church, there is a copy of a curious print, representing West Cheap," as it appeared in the year 1585, wherein is seen the ancient church of St. Michael, standing on the north side of Paternoster Row. It seems to have been a plain and unimportant building, with a low square tower, and pointed-headed windows, and is perhaps chiefly worthy of notice, for having been the burial place of the celebrated antiquary, John Leland. Funerall Monumente," (Edit. 1631,) under the head of "St. Foster's," a much earlier date is affixed to this circumstance. "Lord of thy infinit grase and pitee, Have mercy on me Agnes sometym the wyf The year of grase, on thousand, on hundryd and fyf, It plasyd then my Lord to call me to his grase : |