St Christopher le Stocks was a parish church on the south side of Threadneedle Street in the Broad Street Ward of the City of London. Of medieval origin, it was demolished in 1781 to make way for an extension of the neighbouring Bank of England.
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“For birth was a disease and Christopher and I invented the cure.”
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As though a sterner eye looked through her eye
On this foul world in its decline and fall,
On gangling stocks grown great, great stocks run dry,
Ancestral pearls all pitched into a sty,
Heroic reverie mocked by clown and knave....”
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