On the sides of the arch of the door in the west are two carvings, one representing the martyrdom of St. Lawrence, the other that of St. Edmund, who is seen in a rather mutilated condition, (in more senses than one) his head lying at some distance in a parcel of bushes, while the Danes are shooting arrows into his body, alluding to that portion of the legend which says that when they could not kill him with arrows, Hunguar the Danish leader ordered them to smite off his head, and carry and throw it among the thickest thorns of the adjacent wood, which they did; but a wolf finding it, instead of devouring it, kept it from all beasts and birds of prey, till it was found by the Christians and buried with his body, and that in a surprising manner. In the fifteenth century, three “Sisters of Charity,” called the Sisters of St. Lawrence, dwelt in a tenement by the churchyard. In 1593, the copes were turned into pall cloths, and in 1643 the painted glass of the windows was smashed, and other considerable damage done to the ornamental fittings up of the building. Near to the church is the well of St. Lawrence, the water of which is now conveyed to a pump; bearing this inscription upon it:— This water here caught In sort, as you see, From a spring is brought Three score foot and three. Gybson hath it sought From St. Lawrence’s well, And his charge this wrought Who _now_ here doth dwell. Thy ease was his cost, not small— Vouchsafed well of those Which thankful be, his work to see, And thereto be no foes. From St. Lawrence’s belfry, the curfew is rung at eight each evening. St. Gregory’s contains an altar tomb, with a long Latin inscription to the memory of Sir Francis Bacon, a judge in the court of King’s bench, in the time of Charles II. On the communion table is an inscription to Francis Watson, a pedlar, who painted and marbled all the pillars of the altar, adorned it, and railed the front. St. John’s _Madder Market_ owes its distinctive name to the market formerly held on its north side, for the sale of _madder_, an article used in dying. Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, the widow of Thomas Duke of Norfolk, beheaded by the command of Queen Elizabeth, lies buried in the choir of the church. St. Andrews, the second church in point of architectural beauty, stands upon the site of one founded prior to the Conquest. Its eastern window bears traces of sad havoc having gone on in the midst of the scriptural scenes it was intended to depict. At the east end of the two aisles are doors entering from the porches, and over them verses. Over the south aisle door—