12. ST. MARYLEBONE.
(O.S. 6 in. London Sheet K.)
The borough of St. Marylebone is conterminous
with the parish of the same name.
Ecclesiastical
(1) Old Parish Church of St. Mary was
entirely rebuilt in 1741, but contains from the old
building the following:—
Fittings—Monuments: On E. wall—(1) to Sir
Edward Dowce, 1644, cupbearer to Queen Anne,
wife of James I, and Queen Henrietta Maria, black
and white marble tablet with pediment, cherubheads and cartouche-of-arms; (2) to Deborah
(Messenden), wife of Richard Chambers, 1680,
marble tablet with broken pediment and cartouche-of-arms; (3) to Frances (Forcett), wife of Matthew
Howland, 1668, and to their daughter, Elizabeth,
wife successively of Thomas Roberts and
Humphrey Scott, 1658, black and white marble
tablet with broken pediment, cartouche and four
shields-of-arms. At W. end—(4) to John Crosbie,
1699, plain oval tablet of white marble; (5) to
Edward Guynn, 1644, plain black marble tablet
with shield-of-arms. In churchyard—(6) to William
Sowtherne, 1704, head-stone with skull and crossbones; (7) to Edward Hudd, probably early 18th-century, head-stone. Miscellanea: On front pew—
plate with inscription: "These: pewes: unscrud:
and: tane: insunder/ in: stone: thers: graven:
what: is: under/: to: wit: a: valt: for: burial:
there: is/: which: Edward: Forset: made: for:
him: and: his."
Condition—Rebuilt.
Secular
(2) Clock and figures (Plate 101) at St.
Dunstan's, Regent's Park, about ¾m. N.W. of
Marylebone church.
The Clock was removed here from St. Dunstan's
church, Fleet Street, when that building was
demolished in 1829. It is said to have been the
work of Thomas Harrys, and was originally set up
in 1671; the structure was altered and bells
renewed in 1738–9. The existing clock-turret is a
square wooden structure standing on a modern
base; the front has a recess with an elliptical head
and flanked by Ionic columns supporting an
entablature and pediment; the entablature is
continued round and the pediment repeated at
the back; within the recess are two carved figures
of 'woodmen' with clubs, which strike the hours
and quarters on two bells; at the back of the
recess is a panelled door. The clock itself is
set on a square beam supported on a scrolled
bracket and projecting from the lower part of the
turret.
The Figures (Plate 170) of Lud and his two
sons originally occupied niches on the outer face
of Ludgate, erected in 1586, and demolished in
1760; they were thence removed to St. Dunstan's
church, where they remained until 1829. The
figures, of freestone, painted, now occupy three
niches below the clock-turret; they are in Roman
military costume with long hair and moustaches.
Condition—Of clock-turret, good; of figures,
somewhat damaged.