expense, it is understood, of his noble friend the Earl of
Northumberland, a fine marble monument, bearing the above neat and
appropriate inscription.

St Christopher's, a very old church, with its records (still preserved)
extending back in an almost unbroken series to 1488, passed through many
vicissitudes before itwas finally swallowed up by the leviathan of the
world's commerce. The site of it is now occupied by the south-west
cornerof the Bank of England on Princes Street, to the left of the
entrance, nearly opposite the Mansion House. The church was restored and
redecorated the year of Hariot's death, and again twelve years later,
but was burnt in the great fire of 1666. Hariot's monument perished with
it, but the inscription had been preserved by Stow. The church was
rebuilt on the same foundation by Sir Christopher Wren in 1680.

About a century ago the church, with the whole parish of St Christopher
(called then St Christopher-le-stocks because near the stocks standing
at the east end of Cheapside), together with a large portion of two
other parishes, St Margaret's and St Bartholomew's, was purchased by the
Old Lady of Threadneedle Street for the site of the new Bank of England.
Thus one great bank of this modern metropolis covers a large part of
three parishes of old London.

The whole area of the Bank, however, was not given up to mammon, though
still here men most do congregate, and worshippers most do worship. One
small consecrated spot, enough perhaps to leaven and memorize the whole
site, was respected, and not built over. It was the churchyard of St
Christopher. This ' God's acre' the architect and the governors have
dedicated to Beauty, Art, and Nature. The little ' Garden of the Bank of
England,' the loveliest spot in all London at this day, measuring about