DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING THE ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. II. Duke's Theatre, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, (should be Dorset Gardens) 283 THE ANCIENT REMAINS AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE CITY OF LONDON. Coleman Street Ward, Is so called from a family of that name, who were buried in the church of St. Margaret, Lothbury, and are said by Stow, and others, to have been the builders of the first houses constructed there; but it is not improbable that the ward of Aldermanbury might have been purchased by the Colemans, who gave it their name, as did William Faryngdon to the ward of that name. Be this as it may, the hypothesis cannot be now confirmed, nor is it of much importance that it should. It is divided into six precincts; four of St. Stephen, Colemanstreet; one of St. Olave, Jewry; and one of St. Margaret, Lothbury. lt extends from the grating by St. Margaret, Lothbury, and continues eastward on the south side to the corner of Ironmongerlane, but on the north side no farther than the south-west corner of Basinghall-street; on the north side, from the garden of Grocer's Hall, Poultry, down the whole length of Coleman-street. Moorgate is in this ward, which is under the government of an alderman, six common-council men, with six constables, thirteen inquest-men, and a ward beadle. This ward is bounded north by Cripplegate ward, west by part of Cripplegate and Cheap wards; south by Cheap, and part of Broad-street wards; and east by Broad-street ward. It contains three parish churches, viz. St. Stephen's, Colemanstreet; St. Olave's, Jewry; and St. Margaret's, Lothbury. On the west side, towards the south end of Coleman-street, is the church of St. Stephen's. This is a church of very early foundation, and its patronage was in the dean and chapter of St. Paul, between the years 1171 and 1181; who granted this chapel (then so called) VOL. II. B as an appendage to St. Olave Jewry, to the prior and convent of Butley, in whose gift it continued till the suppression of that convent, when it fell to the crown: the rectory and parish church, with the advowson of the vicarage, were granted by queen Elizabeth to one Thomas Parkins and others; and again in 1590, to William Daniel, serjeant at law, (afterwards sir William Daniel, one of the justices of the Common Pleas,) and other parishioners of Colemanstreet parish, to hold the impropriate rectory in fee-farm of the crown; the parishioners have ever since continued patrons of this vicarage. Stow says, "this church was sometime a synagogue of the Jews, then a parish church, then a chapel to St. Olave's in the Jewry, until the 6th of Edward the Fourth, and was then incorporated a parish church. In this the old chronicler was mistaken, for it appears from Newcome's Repertorium, that this church or chapel was made parochial, and a vicarage ordained and endowed by Thomas Kemp, bishop of London (from 1448 to 1489,) with £11. per annum, in the 35th Henry VI., which was ten years previously. This church sharing the common fate in the dreadful fire of 1666, the present structure was erected by sir Christopher Wren in 1670. It is a plain, neat, solid building, strengthened with rustic at the corners, and enlightened by a series of large windows, with a handsome cornice, and one of the broadest ceilings and roofs that can be seen without a pillar to support it. The steeple is a square tower, crowned with a lanthorn which has four faces, and elevates a bell to summon the parishioners to prayers here twice a day, and for which the parish pays the vicar £20. In the steeple are eight bells. The front of the church is adorned with a cornice. Within, it is well wainscotted and paved; has a handsome pulpit, neatly carved, and an altar-piece adorned with the king's arms, carved, gilt, and depicted; a black and white marble foot-piece to the communiontable, enclosed with a neat rail and baluster; and at the west end is a commodious wainscot gallery, containing a good organ. Over the entrance gate is a representation of the RESURRECTION, which is remarkable for the number of figures crowded into a small space, and the aim of the carver to make his work as elaborate as possible, rather than for exquisite design or beautiful execution. There is |