=Leadenhall Market= is in four rays of varying lengths; the longest is about 80 feet, the shortest about 30. These are covered in by a wide arched roof of glass, supported by girders, and are about 30 feet wide. At each entrance there is a similar design. On either side a couple of massive fluted columns are surmounted by griffins, which support the arch. These are decorated with gilt. Over the entry is an arch of great height, with a stone relief, and on the frieze below the words “Leadenhall Market.” The market was built in 1881, designed by Sir Horace Jones, and is occupied to a very great extent by poulterers and butchers. There are roughly about fifty holdings and two taverns, the Lamb and the Half Moon. There was a chapel in the market, to which was attached a Fraternity of the Trinity of sixty priests, with other brethren and sisters, in which service was celebrated every day. The chapel was taken down in 1812 (see _Mediæval London_, vol. ii. p. 373). In Leadenhall Street have been found Roman remains, a pavement, pottery, etc. A crypt existed under the house 153 Leadenhall Street until 1896, when it was destroyed. [Illustration: CRYPT IN LEADENHALL STREET, 1825 ] “Under the corner house of Leadenhall and Bishopsgate Streets, and two houses on the east, and one on the north, side thereof, was situate a very ancient church of Gothic construction, the principal part of which is still remaining under the said corner house, and two adjoining in Leadenhall Street; but part of the north aisle beneath the house contiguous in Bishopsgate Street, was lately obliged to make way to enlarge the cellar. When or by whom this old church was founded I cannot learn, it not being so much as mentioned by any of our historians or surveyors of London that I can discover.