Excerpt from The Churches and Chapels of Old London: With a Short Account of Those Who Have Ministered in Them The sites of the old churches are very plainly indicated in most instances by little green spots, forn1erly church-yards, now changed into pleasant gardens and resting places. A very small amount of information can be gleaned as to the architecture, style, or size of these buildings. In most cases, no doubt, they were small and insignificant structures, but sufficiently large for the congregations attending them. That they were more in number than the circum stances required is sufficiently evidenced by the fact that when the City was rebuilt it was determined to erect but half the number that previously existed, although there is not much doubt that then, as now, the inhabitants did not always attend their own parish churches, for we find in the records of the Old Stepney Meeting, at that time situate in the small village of Stebonhethe, that when it was formed in the year 1644-45, it is stated that among the congregation worshipping there we have men of Stepney and others of Walbrook and Birchim Lane attending the church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.