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the south aisle hangs a plain, unpretentious little slab of marble to
the memory of Thomas Worlidge, artist and engraver, who died 1766.
His London house was in Great Queen Street, and in it he had been
preceded by Kneller and Reynolds, but in his last years he spent much
time at his "country house" at Hammersmith. Not far off is the name of
Arthur Murphy, barrister and dramatic writer, died 1805. Above the
south door is a monument of Sir Edward Nevill, Justice of the Common
Pleas, died 1705. In the baptistery at the west end stands a beautiful
font cut from a block of white veined marble. In the churchyard rows of
the old tombstones, which were displaced when the new church was
built, stand against the walls of the adjacent school. Adjoining the
churchyard on the south there once stood Lucy House, for many
generations the home of the Lucys, descendants of the justice who
prosecuted Shakespeare for deer-stealing.
In the churchyard stand the schools, formerly the Latymer and Charity
Schools, now merely St. Paul's National Schools. The school was
originally built in 1756 at the joint expense of the feofees of Mr.
Latymer and trustees of the Female Charity School, and was restored
and added to in 1814. The Charity School was founded in 1712 by
Thomas Gouge, who left £50 for the purpose, which has since been
increased by other benefactions.
On the south side of the church are two picturesque old cottages, which
would seem to be contemporary with the old church itself. Near the
north end of the Fulham Palace Road, which here branches off from
Queen Street, is the Roman Catholic Convent of the Good Shepherd.
The walls enclose nine acres of ground, part of which forms a

good-sized garden at the back. The nucleus of the nunnery was a
private house called Beauchamp House. The convent is a refuge for
penitents, of whom some 230 are received. These girls contribute to
their own support by laundry and needle work.
Chancellor Road is so called through having been made through the
grounds of an old house of that name. In St. James Street there is a
small mission church, called St. Mark's, attended by the clergy of St.
Paul's. In Queen Street, which runs from the church down to the river,
there are one or two red-tiled houses, but toward the river end it is
squalid and miserable. Bowack says that in his time (1705) two rows of
buildings ran from the chapel riverwards, and another along the river
westward to Chiswick. One of the first two is undoubtedly Queen
Street. The last is the Lower Mall, in which there are several old houses,
including the Vicarage, but there is no special history attached to any of
them. In 1684 a celebrated engineer, Sir Samuel Morland, came to live
in the Lower Mall. Evelyn records a visit to him as follows:
"25th October, 1695.
"The Abp and myselfe went to Hammersmith, to visite Sir Sam
Morland, who was entirely blind, a very mortifying sight. He showed
us his invention of writing, which was very ingenious; also his wooden
Kalendar, which instructed him all by feeling, and other pretty and
useful inventions of mills, pumps, etc."
Sir Samuel was the inventor of the speaking-trumpet, and also greatly
improved the capstan and other instruments. He owed his baronetcy to
King Charles II., and was one of the gentlemen of the Privy Chamber
and Master of Mechanics. He died in 1696, and was buried at
Hammersmith. There are here also large lead-mills. Behind the Lower
Mall is a narrow passage, called Ashen Place; here is a row of neat
brick cottages, erected in 1868. These were founded in 1865, and are
known as William Smith's Almshouses. Besides the building, an
endowment of £8,000 in Consols was left by the founder. There are ten
inmates, who may be of either sex, and who receive 7s. a week each.
Waterloo Street was formerly Plough and Harrow Lane. Faulkner

mentions a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel here, built in 1809, which
probably gave its name to Chapel Street hard by.
Near the west end of the Lower Mall is the Friends' Meeting House, a
small brick building which, though new, inherits an old tradition; for
there is said to have been a meeting-house here from the beginning of
the seventeenth century, and one of the meetings was disturbed and
broken up by Cromwell's soldiers. At the back is a small burial-ground,
in which the earliest stone bears date 1795.
The Lower is divided from the Upper Mall by a muddy creek. This
creek can now be traced inland only so far as King Street, but old maps
show it to have risen at West Acton. An old wooden bridge, erected by
Bishop