. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. street ; here itagain bends eastward to Southampton-street, and turns across theStrand, down Cecil-street, to the Thames. St. Martins Church. There was very early a church on this spot; for it appears thatin 1225 there was a dispute between the abbot of Westminster andthe bishop of London, concerning the exemption of the churchfrom the jurisdiction of the latter. It is not improbable that itmight at that time have been a chapel for the use of the monks,when they visited their convent-garden, which reached to t
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. street ; here itagain bends eastward to Southampton-street, and turns across theStrand, down Cecil-street, to the Thames. St. Martins Church. There was very early a church on this spot; for it appears thatin 1225 there was a dispute between the abbot of Westminster andthe bishop of London, concerning the exemption of the churchfrom the jurisdiction of the latter. It is not improbable that itmight at that time have been a chapel for the use of the monks,when they visited their convent-garden, which reached to thechurch. Be that as it may, the endowments fell with theirpossessions, and the living is at present in the gift of the bishopof London. During the reign of Henry VIII. the parish was sopoor that the king built them a small church at his own expence ;this structure lasted till the year 1607, when the inhabitants having HISTORY OF LONDON. 241 become more numerous, it was enlarged. At length, becomingruinous, after many expensive repairs, it was wholly taken down inthe year St. Martins Church, Richard Willis, bishop of Salisbury, by order of George the first stone of the present structure, on which is fixed thefollowing inscription: D. S. SERENISSIMUSREX GEORGIUS PER DEPUTATUM SOaM RBV^M aDMO-DUM IN XTO PATREM RICARDUM EPISCOP. SARISBUR. SUMMUM SUUM ELEE-MOSYNARIUM ADSISTBNTE (REGIS JUSSU) D THO. HEWYT, EQU. AUR. ^DI-FICIORUM REGIORUM CURATORE PRINCIPALI PRIMUM HUJUS ECChBSlJBlAPIDEM POSUITMARTII XIXO ANO DNI MDCCXXI, ANNOQUE REGNI SUI VIIIVO. It was intended to have made this a round church, and two planswere presented by Mr. Gibbs to the commissioners, but wereproperly rejected. The model of one is preserved in Westminsterabbey, and engravings of both are inserted in the architects work^Architecture.* The church was consecrated on October 20, 1726. On the layingthe first stone, the king gave one hundred guineas to be distributedamong the workmen, and so
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