It consists of a plain body strengthened with rustic quoins at the corners; the door is well proportioned without ornament, and the windows are placed in three series; the lowest is upright, but considerably broad; those above them circular, and others on the roof are large and semicircular. The tower consists of three stages; the uppermost of which is considerably diminished; in this is the clock, and in the stages below are large windows. The top of the tower is surrounded by a plain substantial balustrade, and the whole has an air of plainness and simplicity. It is a rectory in the gift of the Crown, and the Incumbent’s profits are said to amount to about 400_l._ _per annum_. _St._ OLAVE’S _School_. See the article QUEEN ELIZABETH’S _School_. OLD ARTILLERY GROUND, Artillery lane, Spitalfields. See the article ARTILLERY GROUND. OLD BAILEY, a street which extends from Ludgate hill to the top of Snow hill, by Newgate. On the upper part near Fleet lane, the street is divided into two by a middle row of buildings, whence that towards the west is called Little Old Bailey, and the other to the eastward, is called Great Old Bailey. This street from Ludgate hill to Fleet lane, is in the liberties of the Fleet. In the upper part is Justice Hall commonly called the Sessions house, and in the lower part Surgeons Hall. Maitland observes, that the Old Bailey took its name from the Bale or Bailiff’s house, formerly standing there. OLD BARGE HOUSE _stairs_, Glasshouse yard, near Angel street, Southwark. OLD BARGE HOUSE _stairs lane_, near Angel street, and almost opposite the Temple. OLD BEAR GARDEN, Maid lane, Southwark; thus named from a bear garden formerly there. OLD BEDLAM, or OLD BETHLEM, Bishopsgate street. See the article BETHLEM HOSPITAL. OLD BEDLAM _court_, Old Bedlam. OLD BEDLAM _lane_, Bishopsgate street, near Moorfields, where Bethlem hospital formerly stood. OLD BELTON _street_, Brownlow street.† OLD BOND _street_, Piccadilly. OLD BOSVILLE _court_, Clement’s lane, Temple bar.† OLD BREWHOUSE _yard_, Chick lane, Smithfield. OLD BUILDINGS, Lincoln’s Inn. OLD BURLINGTON _mews_, Old Bond street. OLD CASTLE _street_, Wentworth street. OLD CHANGE, extends from Cheapside to Old Fish street. Here was formerly kept the King’s exchange for the receipt of bullion to be coined. _Maitland._ OLD COMBER’S _court_, Blackman street, Southwark.† OLD FISH _street_, Knightrider’s street; so called from a fish market being formerly kept there. _Maitland._ OLD FISH STREET _hill_, Thames street, obtained its name also from a market. OLD FORD, in Stepney parish, near Stratford le Bow. OLD GEORGE _street_, Wentworth street. OLD GRAVEL _lane_, Ratcliff highway; so called from its being anciently a way through which carts laden with gravel from the neighbouring fields, used to pass to the river Thames, where it was employed in ballasting of ships, before ballast was taken out of the river. OLD GRAVEL _walk_, Bunhill fields.