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being inquired for at the time of the pre- paration of that volume, presumably without success. Mr. Smith thus alludes to this old landmark in the old city :

"In the wide space at the junction of Old Rochester Row and Rochester Row, once stood the parish Found-house, a carpenter's shop, and a fine old tree. The buildings Pound Place were re- moved, and the site added to the public highway in 1864-5."

It is just possible that The Illustrated Lon- don Neivs or The Illustrated Times the latter, I think, had then a separate existence, being afterwards absorbed by the other journal depicted this quaint survival of the past at the tirae'of its demolition ; or, if not, perhaps it was done by The Builder. There was a model of the building and its adjuncts, made to scale, in the Westminster Industrial Exhi- bition held in Victoria Street in 1879, but I cannot say what became of it at the close of the exhibition. I always felt that it was a pity it was not secured by the parish authori- ties, and placed permanently in the Free Library in Great Smith Street. It would now, in this era of constant changes, be of much interest to Westminster residents and others. The spot at which it stood has been subjected to many changes. The huge ware- house of the Army and Navy Stores, a new fire station, and Grey Coat Gardens, consist- ing of many suites of flats, are all recent addi- tions. The only piece of antiquity here is the Grey Coat Hospital, now a girls' school, and that has had one or two additions made to it during the last few years.

W. E. KARLAND OXLEY.

Westminster.

LONDON PAROCHIAL HISTORY (10 th S. iv. 288). See Thomas Allen's 'Hist, and Antiq. of London,' 1828, vol. iii. SS. Anne and Agnes, p. 37, and St. John Zachary, p. 57 ; and James Elmiss's ' Topographical Dictionary,' 1831, p. 17 (SS. Anne and Agnes). "St. Anne's was known as St. Anne in-the- Willows, and later it might have been known as St. Anne- in - the - Limes, from the lime - trees that flourished before the church." (See Strype's 'Stow,' Book III. p. 101). Of this church Weale, in his ' Pictorial Handbook of London ' (Bohri, 1854), p. 312, says: "A square in- terior, similar to St. Martin's, Ludgate, and originally very symmetrical."

Among the prints belonging to the Cor- poration of London in the Guildhall Library are :

1. A view of SS. Anne and Agnes's church.

2. A drawing of the same.

3. The south prospect of the same, under which is a circular letter to attend the

love-feast of SS. Anne and Agnes, 26 July, 1735.

4. SS. Anne and Agnes united with St. John Zachary, with a description, 1814, Coney del, Skelton sculp.

J. HOLDEN MAC-MICHAEL.

OPEN AIR PULPITS (10 th S. iv. 430). The lovely old fourteenth - century " Reader's Pulpit" at Shrewsbury Abbey is often cited as an external one, but was not originally so. It was built within the refectory, and has simply been rendered an open-air pulpit by the destruction of its immediate surround- ings. It stood, when erected, much as do the well-known thirteenth - century one in the refectory at Chester Cathedral and one at Tintern ' Abbey, and, like them, was entered from the cloisters behind. A simi- larly placed pulpit, of about the same date, may be seen at Beaulieu Church, Hants.

The most perfect old open-air pulpit in this country is in the first court of Magdalen College, Oxford. It was incorporated into that building, it is recorded, by Waynflete, when he erected the present college (1473- 1481).

There is an external pulpit (modern) at the north-west end of St. Mary's Church, Whitechapel, and one has within recent years been placed upon the north side of St. James's Church, Piccadilly, an edifice built by Wren in 1684.

At St. Die, in France, a pulpit exists outside the cathedral, but within its cloisters. Upon the north side of St. Lo Cathedral (Normandy) there is an exterior pulpit ; and at Vitre (Ille-et-Vilaine) is one of the finest exterior pulpits in the world. It is carried up from the ground by a tall base and shaft, is ornately carved, and surmounted by an exceedingly beautiful spiral canopy.

Upon the north wall of St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, an external pulpit pro- jects.

Quite a number of old outside pulpits may be seen in Germany. Some are attached to churches ; others are upon the edge of churchyards ; and a few are isolated in cemeteries. One of the last is at Mainbern- heim, in Bavaria. It is of Renaissance date, its stone sounding-board (if so it may be termed) supported by massive columns, lapped by an ogee outlined roof, and sur- mounted by a weather vane. It is approached by winding stairs.

Aschaffenburg the minster church has a parapet of open stonework enclosing its yard. At one corner, carried upon a semi- circular corbel, is a pulpit one that thoroughly commands the ground outside,