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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 " Sherehog” 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 portico 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 probably 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 -_ «iP b ig = church,” was so called —_—_—_o INTERIOR OF ST. ETHELBURGA'S CHURCH, BISHOPSGATE 2&5
