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as can be wished for being viewed at a
distance; and yet it has not this advantage
in perfection, a watch house being erect-
ed in the middle of the street directly be-
fore it, which in a great measure spoils the
prospect, and prevents its terminating the
vista so agreeably as it otherwise would.
This church is a rectory in the gift of
the Bishop of Worcester; the value of the
living is 225l. per annum, besides surplice
fees; of this sum one hundred pounds has
been given and settled by Parliament, and
an hundred and twenty-five pounds is
raised by the inhabitants by a rate of four
pence in the pound, in lieu of tithes.
Newc. Rep. Eccles. Paroch.
St. MARY MAGDALEN'S BERMONDSEY,
near the south west corner of Bermondsey
street, which we vulgarly call Barnaby
street, in Southwark. It is dedicated to
Mary Magdalen the sister of Lazarus, who
was celebrated for her beauty, and still
more for her piety. It appears from the
Conqueror's Survey, that a church of the
same name was situated in this place so
early as the time of the Saxons.
The present edifice, which was built in
1680, is seventy-six feet in length, and
sixty-one in breadth; the height to the
roof is thirty feet, and the height of the
steeple eighty-seven feet. It is a plain
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structure enlightened by a single series of
arched windows with cherubs heads on
the top. The walls are of brick plaistered
over, and the door-cases and windows
cased with stone. The tower, which
rises square, is covered with a kind of
dome crowned with a turret, whence rises
a ball and fane.
The advowson of this church is in lay
patrons, and the profits of the rectory are
said to amount to about 200l. per annum.
St. MARY MAGDALEN'S, Milk-street. This
church was situated at the west end of
Honey lane market, in the ward of Crip-
plegate within; but being destroyed by
the fire of London in 1666, and not re-
built, the parish was annexed to that of
St. Laurence Jewry.
St. MARY MAGDALEN'S, Old Fish street,
is seated on the north side of Knight
Rider's street, in the ward of Baynard's
castle, and is thus denominated from its
vicinity to Old Fish street. There are re-
cords of a church in the same place three
hundred and fifty years ago. The old
edifice was destroyed by the fire of Lon-
don, and the present singular structure
arose from its ruins, and was built in the
year 1685.
It is a small well-proportioned church,
built with stone, sixty feet in length, forty-
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