To the right (No. 101) are the headquarters of the Salvation Army. To the left is St. Nicholas Cole Abbey (originally 'Cold Abbey'; open 8-4, Saturday 8-12), rebuilt by Wren in 1677 and restored in 1876. The street now bends to the north, passing (left) the end of Bread St., in which is the facade of St. Mildred's Church (open 12-2), the smallest of Wren's reconstructions (1683), serving also for the parish of St. Margaret Moses. It contains some good woodwork and the monument of Sir Nicolas Crisp, agent of Charles I. The parish register records the marriages of Shelley with Mary Godwin (December 30th, 1816), and of the tenth Earl of Exeter (Tennyson's 'Lord of Burleigh') with Sarah Hoggins (1791).
Queen Victoria St. now intersects Cannon Street and then Queen Street. On the right is the Mansion House Station. To the left, with its west front in Bow Lane, is the church of St. Mary Aldermary (open 1-3), so called, says Stow, because 'elder than any church of St. Marie in the City.' It was, however, destroyed in the Great Fire and rebuilt by Wren in the Tudor style in 1682-83 (restored in 1876-77). Milton married his third wife, Elizabeth Minshull, in the old church (February 24th, 1663), and Samuel Pepys was married here in 1655. To the right opens Sise Lane, at the south end of which is a memorial marking the site of St. Antholin's (i.e. Anthony; pulled down in 1874), the church of the Scots Commissioners in the Civil War, where the Reverend Alexander Henderson (1583-1646), the most famous Scottish ecclesiastic after John Knox, drew great crowds by his eloquent political and evangelical sermons.
A little farther on Queen Victoria St. ends at the open space in front of the Mansion House.
