_St. Gregory._--In 1010 the body of St. Edmund was brought to "the Church of St. Gregory the Pope, which is situated by the Basilica of the Apostle Paul."[182] This dedication in the name of the Pope who sent Augustine and Mellitus from Rome is probably very ancient, and _St. Augustine's_ near by on the east side of the churchyard may be as ancient. _St. Alban_, Wood Street, was said to have been a chapel of King Offa's, and is mentioned about 1077-1093 as belonging to St. Alban's Abbey.[183] The old topographers say that there was something specially ancient in the structure of this church, and Newcourt thought its origin was at least as old as the time of Athelstane. [Illustration: FIG. 33.--HEAD OF CROSS FROM ST. JOHN'S, WALBROOK.] _All Hallows [Barking]_ is said to have been given by Riculphus and Brichtwen, his wife, to Rochester before it passed into the hands of the Barking Nuns.[184] _All Hallows_, Lombard Street, was given to Canterbury in 1053 by Brithmer, a citizen (Newcourt). Earl Goodwin and his wife gave to Malmesbury the Church of _St. Nicholas [Acon]_ and all their houses in 1084 (Dugdale). _St. Martin's Vintry._--This church Newcourt puts at least as early as the Conqueror's time, and its name of Bereman-Church confirms this (see p. 97). _St. Martin [le Grand]._--Kempe thought that this religious house was first founded long before the Conquest, and that it was only refounded just before by Ingelram. The canons of the house are mentioned amongst the tenants in chief in Domesday.[185] _St. Helen's_, Bishopsgate, and _St. Alphage_ were thought by Newcourt to have existed as early as the Conqueror's time, and there is ample evidence that the former was a parish church before it was attached to a house of nuns late in the twelfth century. It is mentioned in the St. Paul's documents in 1148. _St. Michael_, Cornhill, is said to have been founded before 1055. _St. Stephen_, Walbrook, was given to St. John's, Colchester, _c._ 1100.[186] _St. Botolph_, Billingsgate, Stow thought, was at least as old as the Confessor's time, as the wharf by it was even then called St. Botolph's. In a part of the cartulary of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, in the Lansdowne MSS. (No. 448), _St. Augustine on the Wall_, _St. Edmund_ in "Longboard" Street, _Ecclesia de Fanchurch_ (which it is said had belonged to the Soc of the Cnihten Gild), _St. Lawrence in Judaismo_, _All Hallows on the Wall_, _St. Botolph extra Aldgate_, and _St. Michael, Cheapside_, are mentioned at the beginning of the twelfth century.[187] [Illustration: FIG. 34.--SAXON COFFIN-LID FROM WESTMINSTER ABBEY.]