Dick’s court, Crown alley, Upper Moorfields.
Dick’s Shore, Fore street, Limehouse.
Dick’s Shore alley, by Dick’s shore.
Dick’s Side alley, Hermitage.
Dickenson’s court, Quakers street, Spitalfields.†
Dickenson’s alley, Long lane.†
Digby’s rents, In the Minories.†
Digg’s rents, Blue Anchor alley.†
Dimmock’s yard, Stoney street.†
St. Dionis Backchurch, situated near the south west corner of Lime street, owes its name to St. Dionis, Dennis, or Dionysius, an Athenian Areopagite, or Judge, who being converted on St. Paul’s preaching at Athens, became the first Bishop of that city, and at length Patron of France. This is the celebrated Saint, who, according to the absurd and ridiculous fables of the Papists, carried his head two miles after it was cut off. The epithet of Backchurch, was given to this edifice from its situation behind a row of houses, to distinguish it from St. Gabriel’s church, which stood in the middle of Fenchurch street. The old church was destroyed by the great fire in 1666, and the present edifice, which is built with stone, was erected in its room.