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Allhallows Church was dismantled in 1894. The screen, the pulpit, the
altar rails, the brass candelabra, and some of the woodwork went to St.
Margaret, Lothbury; the organ case, the font rails, the statues of Moses
and Aaron, most of the carved woodwork, the monuments, and the
stained-glass arms of Bishop Waddington went to St. Michael, Paternoster
Royal. The carved-wood altar was allotted to the new Church of
Allhallows, North St. Pancras, which was to be erected partially from
the funds arising out of the sale. The clock by Ericke was bought by a
gentleman connected with the City of London Brewery, where it now
stands. The site and the materials of the fabric were sold by auction on
July 31, 1894, for £31,100.
ALLHALLOWS THE LESS
Allhallows the Less was situated on the south side of Thames Street,
to the east of Allhallows the Great; it was called by some
Allhallows-on-the-Cellars, from its standing on vaults. It is said
to have been built by Sir John Poultney. After the Great Fire the
church was not rebuilt and the parish was annexed to Allhallows the
Great. The earliest date of an incumbent is 1242.
The patronage of the church was in the hands of: The Bishops of
Winchester in 1242; master and chaplains of Corpus Christi College,
Candlewick Street.
Houseling people in 1548 were 200.
The steeple and choir of this church stood on an arched gate, which
was the entry to a great house called Cold Harbour. Dormers were
made on the south side of the church in 1613 to lighten it, and
several galleries subsequently added.
A chantry was founded here by James Andrew, the endowment of which
fetched £8 : 9 : 4 in 1548.
The donors of charities to this church were: Elizabeth Bannister,
£5; Anne Hope, £5; Roger Daniel, £8; and Samuel Goldsmith, £6, paid
by the Company of Dyers.
Two charity schools were erected in 1715 consisting of thirty boys
and twenty-eight girls supported by voluntary contributions from the
inhabitants of the ward.
=Cannon Street= was formerly Candlewick Street. It was part of the
ancient Roman highway that ran through the City and was once called
Watling Street throughout its whole length. Many deeds are extant
relating to Candlewick Street.
Roman remains have been found in Cannon Street including tessellated
pavements and a bronze statuette of Hercules.
In 1369 mention is made of the “Yeldehalle” in Candlewick Street,
probably the “Hula Dacorum,” Hall of the Danes mentioned in the _Liber
Albus_, where we learn that it was occupied by the Cologne merchants and
perhaps by those of Dinant also. The building was probably the “Great
stone Binn” called “Olde Hall” mentioned by Stow.
One of the Caxton family, of whom there were so many in the City, named
William de Caxton, lived here in 1342, and left to the Rector of St.
Swithin his mansion in this street for the maintenance of a chantry.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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