Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Volume 5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ... CHURCH OF ST. STEPHEN WALBROOK. By Thomas Milbodrn, Architect. The church of the parish of St. Stephen, Walbrook,1 as its name implies, was dedicated in honour of St. Stephen, the proto-martyr. The first chutch stood on the west side of the street known as Walbrook, as will be hereafter described. The second building stood on the east side of the same street, on the site occupied by the present church. The date of the foundation of the church is unknown. The earliest reference to it occurs in the charter of the foundation of the Abbey of St. John, in Colchester, in the county of Essex, in the following words: "Pra?terea ecclesiam S. Stephani super Walbrock, et domum meam petrinam juxta Niewchurch, cum suis appenditiis."2 The Abbey of St. John was founded by Eudo Dapifer (sewer or steward to William the Conqueror. William Rufus, and King Henry I.), in or about A.d. 1096, or about thirty years after the Norman conquest. It will thus be seen that the said Eudo Dapifer endowed the Abbey 1 The origin of the name of Walbrook is ascribed by Stowe, on the authority of Geffrey of Monmouth, to an act of Asclepiodatns, who, having recovered Britain, beseiged London, and entering the city slew the Roman captain "Liuius Gallns," near the brook there running, into which he threw him; by reason of this the brook was called in British "Nant Gallon," afterwards in the Saxon tongne "Gallus or Wallu Brooke," which in later times became contracted into Walbrook.--Stowe's Annalt, or General Chronicle of England, with Continuation by Howes, p. 43. "Carta Eudonis dapifcri de fundatione Ecclesia S. Jobonnis de Coleestre.--Dugdale's iIonastioun Anglioanum, by Caley. Ellis, and Bondinel, vol. iv. p. 601. VOL. V. Z of St. John, among other gifts, with the church of St. Stephen upon...