BRICK _lane_, 1. Old street. 2. Spitalfields. 3. Whitechapel: this was formerly a deep dirty road, frequented chiefly by carts fetching bricks that way into Whitechapel, from brick kilns in Spitalfields. BRICK _street_, 1. Hyde Park road. 2. Tyburn lane. BRICK _yard_, Brick lane, Spitalfields. BRICKLAYERS _yard_, Millbank. BRICKLAYERS _court_, Coleman street, Lothbury. BRIDE’S _alley_. Fleet street, so called from St. Bride’s, or St. Bridget’s church. BRIDE _court_, by St. Bride’s church, Fleet street. BRIDE _lane_, 1. By St. Bride’s church, Fleet street. 2. Little Peter street. _St._ BRIDE’S, or rather St. Bridget’s church, is obscurely situated behind the houses on the south side of Fleet street. It has been always dedicated to St. Bridget, but the curious are unable to discover who this saint was. The old church was destroyed by the fire of London, and the present edifice was erected within fourteen years after. This church, which is superior to most of our parish churches in delicacy and true beauty, is 111 feet long, 87 broad, and the steeple is 234 feet high. It has a plain and regular body, the openings all answering one another; the roof is raised on pillars, and the altar piece, like the outside of the church, is very magnificent. The circular pediment over the lower part, is supported by six Corinthian columns. The steeple is a spire of extremely delicate workmanship, raised upon a solid yet light tower, and the several stages by which the spire gradually decreases, are well designed, and executed with all the advantage of the orders. This church is a vicarage, the advowson of which is in the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The living is worth about 240_l._ _per annum_. Among the several monumental inscriptions in this church, and the church yard, is the following: Whoe’er thou art that look’st upon And read’st what lies beneath this stone, What beauty, goodness, innocence, In a sad hour was snatch’d from hence; What reason canst thou have to prize The dearest object of thine eyes? Believe this marble, what thou valu’st most, And sett’st thy heart upon, is soonest lost. BRIDEWELL, so called from its being near a spring called St. Bridget’s, or St. Bride’s well, situated on the west side of Fleet Ditch, near the Thames, was anciently a royal palace, where several of our Kings resided. And here Henry VIII. built a magnificent house for the reception of the Emperor Charles V. who before lodged at Black Friars.