INTERIOR OF CHURCH OF ALL HALLOWS,

UPPER THAMES STREET, 1894

The Church of All Hallows the Great, which is mentioned in a will of 1259, was burnt down in the Great Fire, rebuilt by Wren, and destroyed in 1894. Our illustration shows the fine open screen probably given, in part at least, by German merchants connected with the neighbouring Steelyard. The pulpit, we know, was the gift of one of them, by name Theodore Jacobsen. Both screen and pulpit are, however, clearly English work.

1554. He was brother of Sir Richard, uncle of Sir Thomas, and ancestor of the Leveson Gowers of Titsey. No vault remained on either side of this entrance. Inside the church, traces of at least two buried floors came to light, with fine encaustic tiles in situ. These are mostly, it is believed, in the Guildhall Museum.

Two more of Wren's churches in the City have been pulled down since the writer first began to make a study of its architecture. The first to succumb, and from the artist's point of view by far the most picturesque and interesting, was that of All Hallows the Great in Upper Thames Street, torn down in 1894, the site being bought by a neighbouring brewery. Beyond the facts that the patronage of the living had been in the hands of the Le Despencers, and afterwards came to Richard Nevil, Earl of Warwick, "the king-maker," not much is known of the early history of All Hallows. It is said by Stow to have been called "Alhallowes the More in Thames street, for a difference from Alhallowes the Less in the same street-also called Alhallowes ad foenum in the Ropery, because hay sold near thereunto at Hay wharf, and ropes of old time made and sold in the high street." He adds that "it is a fair church, with a large cloister