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among the wine tunners, wine merchants,
and coopers: but sharing the common
fate in the dreadful catastrophe of 1666,
and not being rebuilt, the parish was
united to that of St. Michael's Royal, and
120l. a year was settled upon the Rector
in lieu of tithes. Maitland.
MARTLET'S court, Bow street, Covent
Garden.
St. MARY ABCHURCH, in Abchurch lane,
Candlewick ward, owes its name to its
dedication to the Virgin Mary, and the
additional appellation of Ab or Upchurch,
was given it on account of its elevation
in comparison of the neighbouring ground
towards the Thames, and to distinguish
it from the many other churches of the
same name in this city. A church dedi-
cated to St. Mary has stood here from very
early times; and we find that in the year
1448, it was in the patronage of the Prior
and Canons of St. Mary Overy's; but
devolving to the crown in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth, her Majesty granted
the perpetual advowson to Corpus Christi
college in Cambridge, wherein it still re-
mains, though in ecclesiastical affairs, it
is subject to the Archdeacon. Maitland.
The old church stood till it was con-
sumed by the fire in 1666, after which
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the present structure was raised in its
room in the year 1686.
The building is of brick, strengthened
by rustic quoins of stone at the corners,
with three windows on each side, of
which the middle one is the principal,
that rising higher, and taking up the
space above, while the others, which are
smaller, have round windows over them;
these have all stone cases. The tower
rises square with the corners strengthened
with rustic; and a large window in the
center of each face, ornamented like the
rest. From this tower rises a kind of
dome, and upon its summit stands a plain
spire supported by a lanthorn base.
St. MARY ALDERMANBURY, by the north
east corner of Love lane, has a fine situation,
with a large area, besides the church yard
in the front. A church of the same name
appears from ancient records to have been
situated there so early as about the year
1300; however, great part of the old
structure was taken down in 1633, and
rebuilt at a considerable expence; but
thirty three years afterwards it was de-
stroyed by the fire of London, and ten
years after that dreadful event, it was
finished in the present form.
It is a plain stone building, likely to
stand for ages; the body is well enlight-
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