Here is also a monument erected to the honour of Queen Elizabeth; and the following very concise inscription on the tomb of William Wray.
Here lyeth, wrapt in clay, The body of William Wray, I have no more to say.
_St._ MICHAEL’S _lane_, in Great Eastcheap, by the above church.
_St._ MICHAEL’S QUEENHITHE, situated on the north side of Thames street, in the ward of Queenhithe, opposite to the great wharf and buildings of that name, was about the year 1181, denominated St. Michael de Cornhithe, which may lead us to the origin of the name by which we at present call that wharf, and this church from its situation near it; as the quantities of corn brought thither down the Thames might occasion the original name, and Queenhithe be only a corrupt way of speaking it.
The old church being consumed by the dreadful fire in 1666, the present structure was erected in its room. It consists of a well-proportioned body, enlightened by two series of windows, the first a range of tall arched ones, and over these a range of large porthole windows, above which are cherubims heads, and underneath festoons, that adorn the lower part, and fall between the tops of the under series. The tower is plain but well-proportioned, and is terminated by a spire crowned with a fane in the form of a little ship.
This church has all along been in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s, and is subject to the Archdeacon. On its being rebuilt the parish of the Trinity was united to it, by which the Rector’s fees were considerably augmented, who, besides his other advantages, receives 160l. _per annum_, in lieu of tithes.
_St._ MICHAEL QUERNE, a church which stood at the west end of Cheapside, between Blowbladder street and Pater noster row, and had a narrow passage at the west end. We have an account of this edifice so early as the year 1181, when it appears to have been only a chapel, since the first Rector was buried in it in 1461. in old records it is called _St. Michael ad Bladum_; that is, _At the Corn_, which was corrupted to Querne. It was also sometimes denominated _St. Michael de Macello_, from its vicinity to the flesh market.
This ancient edifice being burnt by the fire of London, the place on which it stood was, by act of Parliament, laid into the street, in order to enlarge it, and the parish united to the church of St. Vedast, in Foster lane. _Stowe’s Survey._ _Newc. Rep. Eccles._