The Cathedral has been surrounded by such interesting buildings as a Bishop’s Palace, the Chapter House and Library, a Bell Tower, several Chantries, a Charnel House, and St. Paul’s School, founded by Dean Colet, and which, some years ago, was totally destroyed, reappearing as a meaty-red structure of huge dimensions (where the foundation scholars, or “fish,” are in a small minority), in the uninteresting district of East Hammersmith, which is misnamed West Kensington. St. Paul’s Churchyard extended, especially on its northern side, farther than it does now. Part of it was known as Pardon Church Yard, or “Haugh,” in which was a chapel founded by Gilbert Becket, rebuilt by Dean Moore in Henry V.’s time, and surrounded by a rich cloister with pictures of “The Dance of Death” painted by Machabre in it, somewhat like the ones still existing on the bridge at Lucerne, and with very fine monuments to those buried beneath. In 1549 the cloister, the chapel, the charnel house, the paintings, and the tombs were all cleared away by the Protector Somerset, the materials being used for his new mansion in the Strand, and the bones from the charnel house (Stow says one thousand cartloads) were reinterred in Finsbury Field. The churchyard seems to have been first entirely enclosed by a surrounding wall in 1285. [Illustration: PAUL’S CROSS and Preaching there _Paul’s Cross or preaching place, was erected in the form it appears in the plate, about the year 1449, by Thomas Kempe, then Bishop of London, on the site of a more antient cross, which had been destroyed by an earthquake in 1382. Its name first occurs in the year 1259, when Hen. III commanded the Mayor of London to oblige all the city youth of a certain age to take the oath of allegiance at Paul’s Cross, to him and his heirs. From this period it was, for several centuries, used for almost every purpose political as well as ecclesiastical, and is continually noticed in history. It was destroyed by the Lord mayor of London, Isaac Pennington, in consequence of a vote of Parliament, in the year 1643._ PAUL’S CROSS.]