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rHE CHURCHES 199 some tomb made by Nicholas Stone. Of the domestic part of St. Helen’s Priory, the wealthiest nunnery in London, nothing remains above ground. A short walk through a labyrinth of old and narrow lanes takes us into the street called St. Mary Axe. There is no church of that name, nor, indeed, by accident, any church in the ward of Lime Street, of which it forms a part. Stow tells us something of a church and parish of St. Mary, St. Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins, which adjoined a house at its east end, of the sign of the Axe. It was pulled down in 1561 and the parish united to that of St. Andrew Undershaft. The church of St. Andrew stands at the corner, and is very picturesque and well worth a visit, if only for the sake of John Stow, whose handsome terra cotta monument is at the northeastern corner, the historian being represented writing, with a quill pen, occasion F ally renewed, in his hand. : The church, though in the
