2-699-120 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'St. Helen's Priory, and Leathersellers' Hall', c1799, (c1872). View of the church, priory buildings, and the hall used by the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers. The church of St Helen's, Bishopsgate, in the City of London, dates from the 12th century. It was the parish church of William Shakespeare in the 1590s, and contains more monuments than any other church in Greater London except Westminster Abbey. From Old and New London, Vol. II: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]