Watercolour. 13½ by 17½ in.
This is the old church of St. Peter Le Poor on the west side of Old
Broad Street, which in Stow’s opinion may have been so called because
it was “sometime peradventure a poor parish.” It escaped the Great
Fire, but traffic increasing, as it needed repair and projected into
the street, it was pulled down in 1788 and rebuilt farther back.
The second church, an indifferent piece of architecture, has been
destroyed under the Union of Benefices Act within the last few years.
_Lent by Sir E. Coates._