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wee Ci. yy. Ao Ad 1S 257 Tite's splendid Royal Exchange, the portico of which would be an ornament to any city. Of the Bank of England on the left, and of Lombard Street on the right, I have already spoken, as well as of the two churches in Cornhill and the two in Leadenhall Street. Behind the Bank in Tokenhouse Yard is the Mart, where landed and other estates are sold by auction. Some fine new buildings are on the site of the old East India Office, though the front in the street is heavy and poor; but in Fenchurch Avenue observe No. 5 (Messrs. Anderson, Anderson, and Co.), a good design by Mr. J. J. Stevenson, and farther on a costly granite front, Billiter Square Buildings, which only wants good proportions to be one of the most splendid fronts in London. Polished granite in tier after tier of columns and windows ought to look fine, but the effect is singularly unsatisfactory. The best front in Cornhill is probably that of No. 28, the office of the Scottish Widows’ Fund. In Leadenhall Street several examples of ornament at , a JOHNSON § COURT, GOUGH SQUARE
