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180 THE CHURCHES 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 surmounted 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 Staining may mark the unusual phenomenon in the city of a stone building; 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 ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT
