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ened by a range of large well-proportioned
windows, and the corners are wrought
with rustic: it is 72 feet long, and 45
broad; the roof is 38 feet high, and the
steeple about 90 feet. It has a plain solid
tower, constructed in the same manner
as the body of the church; and the angles
in the upper stage are adorned with rustic:
the cornice is supported by scrolls, and
above it is a plain Attic course: in this
rises a turret with a square base that sup-
ports the dial; this turret is arched, but
the corners are massy: its roof is termi-
nated in a point on which is placed the
fane.
The patronage of this church appears
to have been anciently in the Dean and
Chapter of St. Paul's; but the parishion-
ers have ever since the reformation had
the right of chusing their own Minister,
who must however be licenced by the Bi-
shop of London; but in matters ecclesi-
astical it is subject to the Archdeacon, ex-
cept as to wills and administrations, which
belong to the Commissary. The Incum-
bent receives by act of Parliament 150l.
a year from the parish.
St. MARY ALDERMARY, on the east side of
Bow lane, in Cordwainer street ward, has
its additional epithet of Aldermary, or
Elder Mary, from its being the most
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ancient church in this city dedicated to the
Virgin Mary. The last church, which
was erected at the expence of Henry
Keeble, was destroyed by the fire of Lon-
don in 1666; but it was afterwards erect-
ed at the expence of Henry Rogers Esq;
who generously gave 5000l. towards re-
building it.
This Gothic edifice is very spacious, it
being an hundred feet in length and sixty-
three in breadth; the height of the roof is
forty-five feet, and that of the steeple an
hundred and thirty-five. The body is
enlightened by a single series of large Go-
thic windows. The wall has well-con-
trived buttresses and battlements; these
buttresses run up pilaster fashion, in two
stages, not projecting in the old manner
from the body of the building. The
tower, which is full of ornament, consists
of five stages, each of which, except the
lowest, has one Gothic window; and the
pinacles, which are properly so many
turrets, are continued at each corner down
to the ground, divided into stages as the
body of the tower, and cabled with small
pillars bound round it, with a kind of
arched work, and subdivisions between.
English Architecture.
This rectory is one of the thirteen pe-
culiars belonging to the Archbishop of
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