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the tower, which was not finished till the
year 1704.
This church has a considerable space
before it, which is entered by a hand-
some pair of iron gates. It is a neat
edifice, with two series of windows, and
a handsome balustrade round the top.
The tower, which rises square, consists
only of two stages, and round the top is
a balustrade with a pinacle at each
corner; on the crown of each is placed a
pine apple, from which rises the fanes.
On the inside, the church is extremely
neat and well finished.
The living is a rectory, said to be
worth 600l. a year, in the patronage of
the Duke of Montague. Stow, Maitland,
English architecture.
St. Andrew's court, Holborn hill, so cal-
led from the above church.
St. Andrew Hubbard, a church which
stood between St. Botolph's lane, and
Love lane, in Little Eastcheap, where the
King's weigh-house now stands; but be-
ing destroyed by the fire of London, and
not rebuilt, the parish was united to that
of St. Mary at Hill.
St. Andrew Undershaft, at the corner of
of St. Mary Ax in Leadenhall street,
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and in Aldgate ward. There stood in
this place a church dedicated to the
same Saint so early as in 1362, which
was pulled down in the year 1532, and
the present structure erected in its room.
It obtained the name of Undershaft from
a may-pole, which was anciently called
a shaft, being annually raised in the
street near it on May-day, and was taller
than the steeple.
This church is a plain gothic structure,
with a well enlightened body, and a
square tower terminated by battlements,
with pinacles at the corners, within
which rises a turret that contains the
bell. It is a rectory, in the patronage of
the Bishop of London. The Incumbent
receives 120l. a year by tithes.
St. Andrew Wardrobe, on the east side of
Puddledock hill, in Castle Baynard ward,
took its name from a great royal ward-
robe erected there in the reign of King
Edward III. There was a church on
the same spot dedicated to St. Andrew
in the year 1322: but the present struc-
ture was not built till the year 1670,
when it was erected in the place of one
burnt by the fire of London. The body
is enlightened by two rows of windows,
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