been walled up, the two latter being converted into niches. The entire design is rather ornamental, the spandrils of the large window are occupied by foliage, and the lateral niches are covered with pediments. The elevation is finished with a cornice and parapet, with the addition of a pediment above the central division. The tower is attached to the western end of the portion of the church already described; it is made in height into three stories. The south front of the two lower ones is alone visible; on the ground floor is a doorway with a lintelled aperture, covered with a cornice, supported on two cantilivers. The second story has a window now walled up, covered with an elliptical pediment, the third, which is clear of the church, has an oblong square window in each face, the whole being finished with a cornice and parapet. On the platform is a mean turret sustaining a vane in the form of a ship. The east front resembles the one already described in its main features, the windows being open. The north side is stuccoed, and contains windows corresponding in number and form with the other fronts, but the whole is in a plainer style. The interior is far behind the outside in point of ornament, and is not only deficient in decoration, but greatly injured by the carelessness of the architect in the arrangement of the parts. A large and handsome Ionic pillar on a lofty plinth, is applied to sustain the unengaged angle of the tower, which is built on architraves, united on the capital of this column, and entering the walls of the church over pilasters. As there is no corresponding tower on the opposite side of the church, requiring the support of another column, no other has been introduced. The pillar, therefore, stands alone, an unsightly object, rendered the more awkward by a corresponding architrave being formed in the ceiling of the opposite angle of the church, in consequence of which, the present appearance seems to indicate, that a column has been removed, leaving its architrave suspended in terrorem over the heads of the congregation; it is strange that the parish should be so blind to this glaring defect, as to allow it to continue, when a corresponding column might so happily be erected, which would not only have the effect of completing the uniformity of the design, but would make a recess for the organ, which now stands by itself, almost as awkwardly as the solitary column. The portion of the ceiling, eastward, is horizontal, coved at the sides, the latter portion having an architrave of three fascia for its impost, and which is broken by the larger windows: the whole is entirely destitute of decoration: the altar screen of oak has two attached Corinthian columns, sustaining an entablature and broken elliptical pediment, in which is an attic pannel fronted with the arms of king Charles II.; it is painted in imitation of various marbles, but in a dull style; a sprinkling of carving in fruit and foliage forms its decorations. The west end is crossed with a gallery containing an organ.

The pulpit and desks are grouped against the north wall; on the front of the latter is carved a ship in relief.

The font situated beneath the gallery is a plain poligonal basin of white marble sustained on a pedestal in the form of a balluster.

The only monument worthy of observation is to the memory of Ann Simpson, aged 49, 1784; Ann,.her daughter, aged 24, 1776, and has a bust by Nollekins.

The architect of the present church was sir Christopher Wren, and it was erected in 1676 at the expense of 4,654l. 98. 73d. The dimensions are, length 56, breadth 42, height 36 feet; height of tower, 75 feet.

Guildhall.

This spacious edifice is situated at the north end of King-street, Cheapside, the principal front bemg towards the south. This Guilde-hall,' according to Robert Fabian, was begunne to be builded new in the yeare 1411, the twelfth of Henry the Fourth, by Thomas Knolles, then maior, and by his brethren the aldermen; and the same was made of a little cottage, a large and great house as now it standeth.' The expenses of erecting the Great Hall,' which was the first part that was built, were defrayed by large benevolences' from the city companies, conjoined with sums of money' paid for committed offences, and with extraordinary fees, fines, amerciaments, &c. ordered to be applied to this purpose during seven years, and afterwards extended for the term of three years longer. King Henry V., in the third year of his reign, about the year 1415, granted the city free passage for four boats by water, and as many carts by land, with servants to each, to bring lime, rag-stone, and free-stone, for the work of Guildhall, as appears by his letters patent. + All the windows of the hall were glazed by the aldermen, who respectively placed their arms in painted glass in the work. In the years 1422, and 1423, John Coventry and John Carpenter, the executors of the celebrated sir Richard Whittington, gave the sums of 15l. and 201. towards the paving of this great hall' with hard stone of Purbecke;' and they also glazed some of the windows. In the following year, the foundation of the mayor's court was laid;' and in the next, anno 1425, that of the porch on the south side of the mayor's court.'

- Then was builded the maior's chamber, and the councill chamber, with other roomes above the staires: last of all a stately porch entering the great hall was erected, the front thereof being beautified with images of stone.' The charges for glazing were defrayed by the executors of Whittington. In 1481, sir William Haryot, mayor, gave 401. for making and glazing two louvers;' and about 1501, the kitchen and other offices were built, by procurement of sir John Shaw, goldsmith, maior; since which time the mayors' feasts have been yearly kept there, which before time were kept

* Stow's Lond. p. 216, edit. 1598.

✦ Brief account of Guildhall, by J. B. Nichols, 1819, p. 3.

Ibid.

in the [Merchant] Taylor's-hall, and the Grocer's-hall.' 'procurement,' as Stow calls it, was by promoting a subscription, to which the city companies were the chief contributors. In 1505, at which time all the works appear to have been completed, a bequest of 731. 6s. 8d. was made by sir Nicholas Aldwyn (mayor in 1499) for a hanging of tapestrie, to serve for principal days in the Guildhall :* In the years 1614 and 1615, a new council-chamber, with a record room over it, was erected at the expense of 1,7467. The first court was held in it on the 7th November, 1615, by sir John Jolles, knight, and the aldermen.†

In the great fire of 1666, all the out-offices and combustible parts of this edifice were consumed; yet the solidity of the walls was such as to admit of a substantial repair within the three following years, at a less sum than 3,000l. Some further reparations were made at the beginning of the last century, but the most important change was effected in the years 1789 and 1790, when the ancient venerable aspect of the hall was metamorphosed into the present truly Gothic façade.

The old front, of which the accompanying engraving will convey a good idea, was in two principal stories; it was also divided in breadth into a centre and wings. In the first story was an entrance in the centre, the pointed arch of which still exists with little alteration; the spandrils contained enriched quaterfoils enclosing shields. The piers at the sides were elegantly ornamented; upon a plain and low plinth was sustained an enriched elevation commencing with pannels, enclosing shields in quaterfoils; from the superior moulding of each pannel rose an octangular pannelled pedestal crowned with a cornice, and occupying a portion of the concavity of a niche; there were four of these niches, two on each pier; the heads consisted of a pointed arch enclosing five sweeps, and in height ranging with the point of the centre arch. In these niches were statues, which, from the verses given below, appear to have been intended to represent the virtues of Discipline or Religion, Fortitude, Justice, and Temperance;' expressed by four elegant and delicate females; the first in the habit of a nun; the second had an upper garment, composed of ring armour, and in the left hand a shield; the third crowned, and in the attitude of administering justice (the scales gone); the fourth deprived of its armis, (and of course no symbols remaining), but the attitude was most expressive of the character it assumed.

Stow's Lond. p. 217.
Nichols' Guildhall, 5.

Engravings of these Statues wer made by the late J. Carter, F. S. A. for his Ancient Sculpture and Painting. When the statues were taken down, they were requested of the court of common council by Mr. Ald. Boydell, for the purpose of presenting them to Mr.

Banks, the late eminent sculptor, who regarded them as very eminent specimens of ancient art, and was at the pains of restoring their mutilated limbs. &c. After his decease they were sold by auction at a considerable price. Stow, in relation to these statues, and to the general demolition of images' that occurred in his time, states (Sur.