The church being destroyed with most of the other public buildings by the fire of London, and not rebuilt, the parish was annexed to the church of St. Edmund the King. _Newc. Repert. Eccles._ _St._ NICHOLAS _alley_, St. Nicholas lane, Lombard street. _St._ NICHOLAS COLE ABBEY, on the south side of Old Fish street, in Queenhithe ward, is thus denominated from its dedication to the above-mentioned saint, but the reason of the additional epithet is not known, some conjecturing that it is a corruption of Golden Abbey, and others that it is derived from Cold Abbey, or Coldbey, from its cold or bleak situation. It is known that there was a church in the same place before the year 1383: but the last structure being consumed in the great conflagration in 1666, the present church was built in its place, and the parish of St. Nicholas Olave united to it. This edifice consists of a plain body well enlightened by a single range of windows decently ornamented. It is sixty-three feet long, and forty-three broad; thirty-six feet high to the roof, and an hundred thirty-five to the top of the spire. The tower is plain, but strengthened with rustic at the corners; and the spire, which is of the massy kind, has a gallery, and many openings. The advowson of this church, which was anciently in the Dean and Chapter of St. Martin’s le Grand, is now in the Crown. The Rector, besides his other profits, receives 130_l._ a year in lieu of tithes. _Maitland._ _St._ NICHOLAS _lane_, extends from Lombard street to Canon street. _St._ NICHOLAS SHAMBLES, a church formerly situated at the corner of Butcher hall lane, took its additional epithet from the flesh market, which before the fire of London extended along Newgate street. This church with its ornaments was given by King Henry VIII. to the Mayor and Commonalty of the city, towards the maintenance of the new parish church then to be erected in the Grey Friars. _Maitland._ NICHOLAS’S ALMSHOUSE, in Monkwell street, was founded in the year 1575, by Sir Ambrose Nicholas, citizen and salter, for the accommodation of twelve widows of his company, to each of whom he allowed 1_s._ _per_ week, and twenty-four bushels of coals a year. This charity he committed in trust to the company of Salters; the house was however destroyed in the great conflagration in 1666; but was soon after rebuilt, and each widow allowed two neat rooms and a garret. _Maitland._ NICOLL’S _alley_, Cable street, Rag Fair, Rosemary lane.† NICOLL’S _court_, 1. Rosemary lane, Little Tower hill.† 2. Sharp’s alley.† NICOLL’S _street_, Shoreditch.† NIGHTINGALE _lane_, 1. East Smithfield.† 2. Fore street, Limehouse.† NIGHTINGALE _turning_, at the Hermitage, Wapping.† NIPPARD’S _court_, Baldwin’s Gardens.† NIXON’S _court_, Barnaby street, Southwark.† NIXON’S _square_, a very mean little square, by Jewin street.† NOAH’S ARK _alley_, Narrow street, Ratcliff.* Noble street, 1. Foster lane, Cheapside.† 2. Goswell street, by Aldersgate bars.†