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as Gothic, it remains much as it was in the days when the headless
bodies of Fisher, Surrey, and Laud were laid in it, all of them to be
subsequently removed. Not far from All Hallows’, in a little court off
Fenchurch Street, is the
old tower of All Hallows’
Staining, the church hav¬
ing been pulled down, like
so many other churches in
the neighbourhood. We
may be glad that even this
relic was spared.
The last Gothic church
in the city is one which
attracts many visitors as
the burial-place of Samuel
® Pepys. St. Olave’s, Hart
Street, deserves a visit for
its own sake. The Gothic
part has been only too
thoroughly " restored,” and
we cannot now tell how
much of it is old and how
much new. But, for some
unexplained reason, the
restorers spared a good A GLIMPSE OF ST. PAULS FROM SOUTHWARK
deal of the later work, such, for example, as the delightful vestry with
its wonderful angel ceiling, and the gateway adorned with skulls. The
pulpit, attributed to Grinling Gibbons, and worthy of him, came from
the destroyed church of St. Benedict Gracechurch.
The great majority of the city churches as we now see them