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THE CHURCHES 18s
stuck to him in an age when even aldermen bore such nicknames as
“ Drink-peg,” ‘The Proud, and “ Bat,” and when commoner: folk
were called Bull and Goose, Box and Horn, Pig and Goodcheap, to say
nothing of much more offensive appellations. St. Osyth’s perished,
leaving a memorial of its name in Size Lane, and St. Benedict " Shere¬
hog” rose in its place, to be burnt and never rebuilt in the second Great
Fire, that of 1666, St. Christopher "le Stocks” is mentioned before
1233, and was so called from its proximity to the Stocks Market. The
church stood where the Duke of Wellington’s statue stands now in the
open space before the por¬
tico of the Royal Exchange.
St. Dionis " Backchurch ”
was in Fenchurch Street,
and is mentioned as early
as the reign of Edward I.
It took its name, no doubt,
from its situation behind a
row of shops. St. John
Zachary was so called from
a certain priest who prob¬
ably built it in the middle
of the twelfth century. St.
Katherine "Coleman" is
called from a large garden
or enclosure known as
Coleman Haw, as early as
the reign of Edward III.
st. Katherine ‘Cree,’ or
more correctly ‘“ Cree¬
aa” ae
F a
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«iP b ig =
church,” was so called —_—_—_o
INTERIOR OF ST. ETHELBURGA'S CHURCH, BISHOPSGATE
2&5