. Some account of the parish of Saint Clement Danes (Westminster) past and present . building was repaired in 1608, and again in 1633 ; but beingmuch decayed, was pulled down in the year 1680, and the presentnoble edifice erected on the site. On the side of the churchyard facing Temple Bar, a stone-builthouse may be seen, looking like a burial vault above ground, which aninscription informs us was erected in 1839, to prevent people using apump that the inhabitants had put up in 1807 over a remarkable well,which is 191 feet deep with 150 feet of water in it. Perhaps thismaybe the holy
. Some account of the parish of Saint Clement Danes (Westminster) past and present . building was repaired in 1608, and again in 1633 ; but beingmuch decayed, was pulled down in the year 1680, and the presentnoble edifice erected on the site. On the side of the churchyard facing Temple Bar, a stone-builthouse may be seen, looking like a burial vault above ground, which aninscription informs us was erected in 1839, to prevent people using apump that the inhabitants had put up in 1807 over a remarkable well,which is 191 feet deep with 150 feet of water in it. Perhaps thismaybe the holy well of bygone days, that gave the name to a streetadjoining, once noted for old pictures, old clothes, and old books—a place that is fast going to decay. King Henry IV., by his charter dated at Westminster on the7th June, in the 7th year of his reign, granted to Robert Palmer,Parson of the Church of St. Clement without Temple Bar, a certainvoid place adjoining the burial ground of the said church, containingtov/ards the north in length 200 feet of land, and in width 24 feet at. the head towards the west, and 20 feet at the head towards the east,with Hcense to enclose and build upon the same place, and the sameso enclosed and built upon to hold to him and his heirs of the Lordthe King; rendering, therefore, 2s. per annum for all manner ofservices : to hold the same in aid of the sustentation of a certainlamp before the Image of the Holy Trinity, in the church aforesaid,to be burning day and night; and in aid of other things for the useof the said church, according to the judgment of the keeper of thesaid church for the time being. This property cannot now beidentified, and is consequently lost to the parish. It must have beenabout where the railway booking-office now stands, or where thestreet now is. The charter is enrolled among the charters of theperiod, and was accidentally discovered about five years ago. THE ESSEX STREET building, which was formerly an Aucti
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