_St._ DUNSTAN’S _in the West_, on the north side of the west end of Fleet street, is dedicated to the same Saint as the former, from which it is distinguished by the epithet _the West_. It appears to have been built four or five hundred years, since there are accounts of funerals and donations to it from the year 1421, with earlier anecdotes of little consequence; and it is easy to see that it has been repaired and altered at different periods, till the original style, whatever it was, is lost. It narrowly escaped the fire in 1666, the flames stopping within three houses of it. This edifice, in a very disagreeable manner, stands out into the street, and as it has been observed, is but an incumbrance to the way, and without having any thing but deformity itself, spoils the beauty of the whole street, and hides the prospect of Temple Bar, which would terminate the view very advantageously, and be seen almost as far again as it is at present. The church consists of a large body, and a small tower, every way unproportioned. The shops, which are in a kind of sheds below it, make, as it were, a part of the building. The clock projects to the south near the west end, and for the amusement of the gaping vulgar, two human figures are placed in a kind of Ionic loggia, and by means of clock work, strike two bells hung over them, and declare the hour and quarters. _English Architecture._ This church was originally a rectory in the patronage of the convent of Westminster; though it afterwards became a vicarage, and being granted by King Edward VI. to the Lord Dudley, has ever since continued in lay hands. The Vicar receives 240_l._ a year in lieu of tithes. _Maitland._ _St._ DUNSTAN’S _Stepney_. See STEPNEY. DUNSTAN’S _court_, 1. Fleet street.☐ 2. Little Old Bailey. DUSTAN’S _square_, Whitechapel. DUNSTER’S _court_, Mincing lane.† DURHAM _court_, Trinity lane. DURHAM _yard_, 1. Chick lane. 2. In the Strand; from Durham House, built by Dr. Beck Bishop of Durham. _Camden’s Britannia._ DURHAMS, in Middlesex, two miles north of Barnet, a seat which the Earl of Albemarle bought of Sir John Austin, and has since greatly beautified, by laying most of the neighbouring fields belonging to it into a park, and by turning and repairing the roads. The house is situated on an eminence that rises in a small valley, surrounded with pretty high hills at a little distance, so that in the summer months it affords an agreeable retreat; but the soil around it being a stiff clay, the rain which falls in winter is detained on its surface, and renders the situation very moist and cold.