. Walks in London . been filled by Wiilemeniwith stained glass armorial bearings of the different posses-sors of Crosby Place. It is one of the few ancient halls inwhich there is no indication of a raised dais. Above theadjoining Coundl Chamber is the so-called Throne Roomywith a peculiarly beautiful window. Crosby Place is nowoccupied by the Restaurant of Messrs. Gordon and Co. In Crosby Square^ at the back of the Hall, are someadmirable modern buildings of brick and terra-cotta. CrosbyHall CJiambers^ close by, have a good chimney-piece of 1635- Close to Crosby Place, a low timber-corbelled g
. Walks in London . been filled by Wiilemeniwith stained glass armorial bearings of the different posses-sors of Crosby Place. It is one of the few ancient halls inwhich there is no indication of a raised dais. Above theadjoining Coundl Chamber is the so-called Throne Roomywith a peculiarly beautiful window. Crosby Place is nowoccupied by the Restaurant of Messrs. Gordon and Co. In Crosby Square^ at the back of the Hall, are someadmirable modern buildings of brick and terra-cotta. CrosbyHall CJiambers^ close by, have a good chimney-piece of 1635- Close to Crosby Place, a low timber-corbelled gatewayleads out of Bishopsgate Street into Great St. HelerCs^ where,tioin the noise and bustle of the great thoroughfare, you WALKS IX LONDON. suddenly enter upon the quiet of a secluded churchyard,filled in early spring with bright green foliage. Here, , the Priory of the Nuns of St. Helens was founded byWilliam Basing, Dean of St. Pauls. The old Hall of theNuns was only removed in 1799. Their Church Crosby Hall, Bishopsfjate Street. and from the number of monuments connected with theCity of London within its walls it has become a kind ofWestminster Abbey for the City, end is of the highestinterest. Lately the number of these mcnuments has beengreatly increased by the destruction, in 1874, of the ancient ST. HELENS, BISHOPSGATE, 289 Church of St. Martin Outwich (so called from its founder,John de Oteswitch), and the removal to St. Helens of allthe tombs which it contained. The church consists of two aisles, separated by perpen-dicular arches, with chapels attached at the a very small portion of the building is used for congregational purposes, and till a few years ago a large partof the west end, screened off, and always known as *TheVoid, was only used for funerals. The whole building issurrounded with monuments. An inscription over the westdoor reminds us that This is none other than the houseof God, but the usual entrance is by the handsome J
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