All Hallows Church, Staining

Despite surviving the Great Fire of London in 1666, the main body of the fourteenth-century church of All Hallows Staining (Mark Lane near Fenchurch Street) collapsed just five years later, perhaps owing to the ground being weakened by too many burials in the churchyard. A new church was constructed around the surviving tower, which forms the focal point of this wash drawing by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, made as an illustration to the topographical publication, London in the Nineteenth Century (1829). Although the church has since been demolished, the tower remains and is now maintained by the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers.