In Clark’s Place is a building containing the Marine Society, with the statues of a woman and boy in a niche. In Bishopsgate Street, No. 68, is an old stuccoed house with projecting upper stories. No. 67 is also old though not so noticeable.
Part of Ethelburga House and the numbers on the north, as far as 23 inclusive, are in this ward. The corner house has a stone mitre of large size on its corner and an inscription, rather quaintly worded, announcing that the gate stood formerly “adjoining to this spot.” Looking back down Bishopsgate from here we get a fine perspective view. The modern buildings are of all heights, but distance blends them not inharmoniously, leaving enough variety to be pleasing.
Drawn by R. West, 1736.
ST. ETHELBURGA, BISHOPSGATE ST.
The Mail Coach public-house is at the corner, and on the opposite house is a small mitre in memory of the Bishopsgate.
Just outside the City Wall is
ST. BOTOLPH, BISHOPSGATE
This church escaped the Great Fire of 1666, but was rebuilt in 1725-29 by James Gold. In 1615 the City gave the parishioners additional ground on the west for burial purposes. The earliest date of an incumbent is 1323.
The patronage of the church has always been in the hands of the bishops of London since 1323.
Houseling people in 1548 were 650.