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2715 CHURCHES 205 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
