Rotten without and mouldering within, This place and its clergy are both near akin! So much for the _Yacht_. The CUSTOM HOUSE, immediately opposite, with its low stuccoed front, has nothing to arrest the special notice of visitors. [Picture: Trinity Church, Yacht Inn, and Custom House] NICHOLAS STREET, which branches off in a direct line towards the Castle, has on the right hand a terrace of well-built, first-class houses, extending as far as the corner of _Grey Friars_. From the circumstance of every alternate house in this terrace being occupied by a doctor, it has latterly acquired the appropriate cognomen of _Pill-box Promenade_! Some distance up Nicholas Street, on the left hand, is ST. MARTIN’S CHURCH, a humble brick building, erected in 1721, in the place of an older structure dating back to the thirteenth century. St. Martin’s parish has recently been united to that of St. Bridget, and the services of this Church are now, in consequence, discontinued. Moving along _St. Martin’s Ash_, as this locality is termed, past _Cuppin Street_, where the Old Gas Works are situate, we obtain a good front view of the new Church of ST. BRIDGET. This Church, or rather its predecessor, stood originally at the other end of GROSVENOR STREET, immediately opposite to St. Michael’s Church, and its foundation has been by some ascribed to Offa, King of Mercia, in the eighth century. Be this as it may, there are records preserved which establish its existence at least as early as the year 1200. On the erection of the _Grosvenor Bridge_, it was found that this Church stood exactly in the track of the projected New Road, now called GROSVENOR STREET, and an act of parliament was consequently obtained for its removal. The old Church was demolished in 1827, and the grave-stones and bodies removed, where practicable, to the new burial-ground adjoining the present Church. The first stone of the new edifice was laid October 12, 1827, by Dr. C. J. Blomfield, the present Bishop of London, who at that time presided over the see of Chester. This structure presents outwardly none of the characteristics of a Christian Church; and might easily be mistaken for some pagan temple, rather than for one dedicated to the worship of the Most High. Returning to Watergate Street, we see before us LINEN HALL STREET, called formerly _Lower Lane_, from its being at one time the last street on this side of the city. There is nothing to interest us in this street, which terminates with _St. Martin’s in the Fields_, at the rear of the Gaol, and General Infirmary. So late as the sixteenth century, there was at the further end of this street an ancient Church, quoted in old deeds as the _Church of St. Chad_, but the place thereof is now nowhere to be found. Lower still down Watergate Street, is LINEN HALL PLACE, where the Chester CHESS CLUB holds its meetings, and where players of every country and clime are sure of a hearty and welcome reception.