Pen and wash drawing. 10 by 9½ in.
The church of St. Botolph, Aldgate, was rebuilt in 1744, from the
designs of George Dance the elder. In 1710 Sir John Cass, alderman,
had presented this school near the church with shops and a vault
beneath, for the benefit of the ward, and he afterwards left property
for educational purposes, which has become of great value. About 1750
a lead statue of him, modelled by Roubiliac, was placed in front of
the building. In 1762 the school was moved into a house in Church Row,
the original building being used for other purposes, but this statue
and statuettes of a schoolboy and a schoolgirl remained in their
niches as here shown. The building was not destroyed until many years
afterwards. Here one sees that in 1815 part of it was a watch-house.
Most of the site has been absorbed by a widening of Houndsditch.
The statue of Sir John is now in the modern building known as the
Cass Foundation, Jewry Street. The drawing was done for Wilkinson’s
“Londina Illustrata,” but does not appear in that publication.
By R. B. SCHNEBBELIE (died about 1849).
_Lent by Sir E. Coates._