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William and John de Oteswich, who
were some time the proprietors thereof.
The patronage of this church was indeed
anciently in the family of the Earls of
Surry; but afterwards coming to the
de Oteswiches, they conferred it upon the
company of Merchant Taylors, in whom
it still remains. The Rector receives only
40l. a year in tithes. Maitland.
This is one of those few churches that
escaped the fire in 1666, and with some
repairs has stood ever since, and may stand
much longer, though it is already above
220 years old.
This edifice is an old Gothic structure
of the meaner style; it is sixty-six feet
long, and forty-two broad; the height of
the roof is thirty-one feet, and the height
of the steeple, sixty-five feet. The body
is of brick, strengthened at the corners
by a massy rustic: the windows, which
are large, are of the coarse Gothic kind,
and the top is surrounded with plain square
battlements. From the tower, which is
extremely plain and simple, rises a turret,
that is open, arched, and supported by
four piers; and from the dome rises a
ball and fane.
The New View of London has the
following epitaph in this church.
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In memory of John Wright, anno
sal. 1633, aged 24.
Reader, thou may'st forbear to put thine eyes
To charge for tears, to mourn these obsequies:
Such charitable drops would best be given
To those who late, or never come to heav'n.
But here you would, by weeping on this dust,
Allay his happiness with thy mistrust;
Whose pious closing of his youthful years
Deserves thy imitation, not thy tears.
St. MARTIN'S POMARY, or Ironmonger
lane, Cheapside, is supposed by Mr. Stowe
to have derived its additional epithet of
Pomary, from apple trees growing about
it; which is the more probable, as in his
time there were large void spaces near it.
This church stood at the corner of Iron-
monger lane, and in Cheap ward; but
suffering by the dreadful fire of London,
the parish was united to the church of
St. Olave's Jewry.
MARTIN'S rents, Queen street, New Gravel
lane.
MARTIN'S street, Thames street.
St. MARTIN'S VINTRY, stood in Thames
street, near the south east corner of Queen
street, and in Vintry ward. This church,
which was a rectory, received its addi-
tional denomination from its being situated
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