By Sec. 18, All Hallows Staining, Mark Lane. Population, 175.

Agreement published in the London Gazette, 21 March, 1865, Tithes commuted for fixed annual sum of £1,600. Out of the proceeds of this tithe-rate, two new churches—All Hallows, Bromley, and S. Anthony, Stepney—have been built, and their vicars endowed each with £500 per annum, and the balance is accumulating for the erection of a third church and the endowment of its vicar.

The tithes of the following parishes have been commuted by local Acts.

£
S. Andrew, Holborn. 4 George IV. c. cxviii.Fixed annual net sum700
S. Giles, Cripplegate. 7 George IV. c. liv.”1,800[280]
S. Botolph without, Bishopsgate. 6 George IV. c. clxxvi.”2,500[281]

The rector of S. Giles-in-the-Fields has a charge of £300 net a year on next avoidance of S. Botolph without, Bishopsgate.

Under the London (City) Tithes Act, 1879, portions of the sums payable as above have been redeemed, the consideration being such sum as will, if invested in 3 per cent. consols., produce an annual sum equal as near as may be to the annual amount of such rent-charge. The consideration is paid to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who pay the dividends on the stock to the incumbents.

It is important to give seriatim some further particulars about the above benefices.

(1) Of the £2,500 of S. Andrew Undershaft, w. S. Mary-at-Axe, eight parishes receive in the aggregate £500 a year.[282] The Bishop of London is patron; the rector is Bishop Billing, his suffragan; his net income is £2,057, with £375 a year for house rented; total, £2,432. Church accommodation, 210; population, 315.

(2) The fixed tithe of S. Catherine Colman is £1,550, out of which six parishes at Bethnal Green receive in the aggregate £400, S. Thomas Charterhouse £150, the rectors of S. Giles-in-the-Fields £100, and S. Mary, Whitechapel, £500 per annum.[283] Bishop of London, patron; rector, Bishop Wilkinson; income, £1,500 per annum, including £1,100 a year from rentals. Church accommodation, 290; population, 277.