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Woollenhithe, or Wolnoth, but the new
church was nearer the ‘haw’ or hatch. St.
Mary Wolnoth seems unquestionably a name
referring to the hithe. St. Mary Abchurch
seems to be a corruption of Up-church, on
account of its situation above St. Mary
Bothaw. St. Mary at Hill has something
of the same kind of meaning. St. Mary
Aldermanbury explains itself. St. Mary
le Bow
boasted
of a tall
tower sur¬
mounted
by arches,
or “bows,”
spire supported on them like that
of Wrens St. Dunstan. St. Mary
Colechurch would be more puzzling,
but that it probably stood in that
part of the market where coal or
charcoal was sold. St. Mary Stain¬
ing may mark the unusual pheno¬
menon in the city of a stone build¬
ing; or it and All Hallows’ Staining,
or one of them, may be called from
the manor of Staines, to which i
certain houses in London belonged —
before the Norman Conquest. These
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