11
Thames Street
Allhallows, Bread Street 382 3
St. Martin Pomray, Old 410 1
Jewry
St. Margaret, Bread Street 287 3
St. Peter le Poor, Old 1725 20
Broad Street
St. Martin Outwich, 1100 6
Bishopsgate Street
St. James, Mitre Square 300 20
Allhallows with St. 650 9
Bennet, Lombard Street
7074 162

In the City there are 105 churches, parochial and district, and in the
City the superiority of the Church over Dissent is manifest. The Jews,
the Greeks, the Roman Catholics, the Wesleyans, the Baptists, the
Congregationalists, the Presbyterians altogether have but twenty-six
chapels in the City.

From the beginning of the long reign of George III. to its close--that is
from 1760 to 1820--there were not six new churches erected in the
metropolis.

When the Great Fire had devoured the eighty-nine parish churches of
London, Sir Christopher Wren superintended the building of fifty-three at
the same time that he was building St. Paul's. Various Acts were passed
in the reign of Queen Anne and George I. to increase church accommodation
in London, and Commissioners were appointed to apply the coal duties from
the year 1716 to the year 1724, to the building of fifty-two new
churches. Much of the money was misappropriated and only eleven were
built, and a subsequent fund of 360,000_l._ was granted, to be paid in
instalments of 21,000_l._ a year. In 1818, Parliament was prevailed on
to vote a million and a half for building churches throughout the country
as a thank-offering for the termination of the war; and in the same year
the Incorporated Church Building Society was founded, to build, enlarge,
and repair churches; of which many, such as those in Bethnal Green,
Hackney, St. Pancras, Battersea, were in London. Daniel Wilson, Bishop
of Calcutta, persuaded the vestry of Islington to vote 12,000_l._ for
church building. In 1836 Bishop Blomfield inaugurated the Metropolis
Churches Fund, to which he himself gave up sinecure patronage at St.
Paul's to the extent of 10,000_l._ a year. Sixty-eight churches were
built by this fund at the cost of 136,787_l._, before it was