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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… The principal monuments are the Tower of London, the church of St. Dunstan, Stepney, Trinity Almshouses and the house No. 37 Stepney Green. Ecclesiastical (1) Parish Church of St. Dunstan, Stepney, stands on the N. side of … largely re-built late in the 14th century. The rest of the church, including the Nave, North and South Aisles, a N. …
Old and New London
… ( From a View published by N. Smith, 1791.) The parish church, dedicated to St. Dunstan and All Saints, was built in … life. Deceased, June 18, 1687." "On the outside of Stepney Church," says Lysons, "over the south porch, is a … Nights' Entertainments.'" Amongst the epitaphs in Stepney Church is that to Sir John Leake, 1720: "To the memory of the …
The Environs of London
… Hackney, St. Matthew Bethnal-green, Whitechapel, Christ-Church Spitalfields, St. George in the East, and Shadwell, … says, there was not an abbot, doctor, or master in the university, who did not attend and take notes of them. Dr. … procured from the committees the appointment of Master of University College, and Regius Professor of Divinity at …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… for the repairs of its room. The churchwarden of Christ Church (Spitalfields) received £50 a year from the managing … the residue of her property to buy land between Stepney church and Bow and to build as many almshouses as possible … for bread every Sunday. Until 1833 the money went into the church rate account but was spent fully on bread in the four …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Stepney Churches CHURCHES The church of Stepney, which existed by 1154, 8 served the whole … 1708 of an additional dedication led writers to assume the church was a Saxon foundation, rededicated to St. Dunstan … repeated, 11 but the dedication to him may date from the Church's revived interest in him after 1093. 12 The rectory …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Mile End to Hackney, and the road from Mile End to Stepney church, the Colchester road ran between wide bands of … east of Mile End a road branched off towards the parish church. In 1725 an ancient highway called Mile End Green … Green. It continued through Ratcliff linking Stepney church, White Horse Street, and Butcher Row to Ratcliff Cross …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… with Shoreditch followed a highway from Shoreditch church to Cambridge Heath; most of the western boundary … fields or estates, apart possibly from the line along Back Church Lane, which may have been the medieval Chapel Street. … Shadwell (68 a.), was created by an Act in 1670. 13 Christ Church, Spitalfields (73 a.), and St. George-in-the-East …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of St. Osyth (Essex) for a garden next to Whitechapel church. 98 John Hadley also had a garden near the latter, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… were held in Whitechapel in 1655, 64 near Whitechapel church in 1677, 65 and at the New Court House on Mile End … their own chapel, were allowed in 1497 to compound for church rates and excused from serving parish offices. 35 The … Green, and Poplar) provided the lights in the parish church in 1532, an arrangement that may explain references to …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in Poplar, and land in Bethnal Green near Shoreditch church in order to pay the balance owed for their purchase of … and the remaining waste from Mile End Road to the parish church. 97 Further settlements were made in 1777 and 1785 … to as her dwelling, it lay north-east of the parish church in the hamlet of Ratcliff, on the site of the later …