Guilds -- England -- London; London (England) -- Description and travel; London (England) -- History
Sir Henry Keble, the founder of the original church, was buried
here, and a monument erected to him in 1534; also Sir William
Laxton, mayor, 1556, and Henry Gold, one of the rectors here, who
was executed at Tyburn in 1534. “The Holy Maid of Kent” was also
buried here. The monuments in the present church are of little
interest. Over the west door there is a Latin inscription recording
the munificence of Henry Rogers. Mr. Garret gave £100 to the
lecturer of this church, to endure as long as the Gospel was
preached. The particulars of the numerous other gifts and charities
did not come into the possession of Stow. There were two almshouses
for the poor of the Salters Company, who are four in number, each of
whom has an allowance of 1s. per week.
Thomas Browne (d. 1673), chaplain to Charles I., was rector here;
also Robert Gell (1595-1665), Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge;
Offspring Blackall (1654-1716), Bishop of Exeter; White Kennett
(1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough; Henry Ware, Bishop of
Chichester; Henry Gold, who was executed at Tyburn, 1534; George
Lavington, D.D. (1684-1762), Bishop of Exeter.
=Budge Row=, northward, was spelt Begerow in 1376. Of it Stow says: “So
called of Budge fur and the Skinners dwelling there.”
At the south-western corner of Sise Lane, in Budge Row, there is a
rectangular railed-in space about a dozen feet by six, sheltered by the
corner of the adjoining house. Against the wall, facing eastward, is a
monument in stone of considerable size. Two columns with Corinthian
capitals support an architrave, and enclose a view in slight relief of
=St. Antholin’s= as it was. Beneath the view are the words:
Here stood the parish church of St. Antholin, destroyed in the Great
Fire, A.D. 1666, rebuilt 1677 by Sir Christopher Wren, architect.
On the bases of the columns are inscribed the names of the churchwardens
of St. Antholin’s and St. John Baptist’s, Walbrook, respectively. While
the following inscription is beneath:
The change of population in the City during two centuries rendering
the church no longer necessary, it was taken down A.D. 1875, under
the Act of Parliament for uniting City Benefices; the funds derived
from the sale of the site were devoted in part to the Restoration of
the neighbouring church of St. Mary Aldermary, where are also
erected the monumental tablets removed from St. Antholin, and the
erection at Nunhead of another church dedicated to St. Antholin
greatly needed in that thickly populated district.
And again, right across the bases of the pillars and the stone, run the
words:
In a vault beneath are deposited the greater part of the human
remains removed from the Old church. The remainder are laid in a
vault in the City of London Cemetery at Ilford, where also a
monument marks the place of interment.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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