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The present church measures 59 feet in length, 40 feet in breadth,
and 57 feet 9 inches in height. It is singular from its standing
north and south, but this was forced upon Wren by the position of
the ground at his disposal. There are no aisles. The steeple, which
rises at the south, consists of a three-storied tower and octagonal
lantern and spire, and a pedestal supporting a finial and vane. The
lantern is ornamented at the angles by flaming urns, in allusion to
the Great Fire. A projecting clock is attached to the face of the
second story and is a prominent feature in Lombard Street. The total
height is 136 feet.
Chantries were founded here: By Thomas Wyllys for himself and
Christian his wife, whose endowment fetched £24 in 1548, when
Richard Auncell was chaplain; by and for Matilda at Vane, relict of
John Atte Rose, dedicated to SS. John, Peter, and Thomas the martyr,
to which John Reynes was admitted chaplain on the resignation of
William Belgrave, September 25, 1382; by Richard Toky for himself
and Matilda his wife, to which William Howes de Blackolm was
admitted chaplain, October 20, 1362; by John Longe, whose endowment
fetched £35 in 1548, when William Myller and Edward Mamyn or Hamonde
were chaplains.
The old church contained a monument to John Shute, a
painter-stainer, who wrote one of the earliest English works on
Architecture. He died in 1563. On the east wall a monument
commemorates Dr. Jeremiah Milles, Dean of Exeter, President of the
Society of Antiquaries, and rector of the united parishes, who died
in 1784.
Addison was married in this church to the Dowager Countess of
Warwick and Holland in 1716.
This parish was not rich in charitable gifts. Some of the donors
were: Richard Jaie of 45s. for bread, etc., for the poor; Mrs. Joan
Lowen of 52s.; Mrs. Anne Whitmore, £5.
ALLHALLOWS, LOMBARD STREET
This church went by the name of Allhallows “Grasse Church” from its
proximity to the grass and hay market. It was consumed by the Great
Fire, but subsequently rebuilt and completed by Wren in 1694. The
parish of Allhallows was one of the thirteen “Peculiars” of the
Archbishop of Canterbury in the City of London. The earliest date of
an incumbent is 1279.
The patronage of the church was in the hands of: Brihterus, citizen
of London, who in 1052 gave it to the Prior and Convent of Christ
Church, Canterbury; the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, in whose
successors it continued, who first presented to it in 1552.
Houseling people in 1548 were 300.
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