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Allhallows The Less, or, Allhallows on the Cellars, in Dowgate Ward. A church in Upper Thames-street, destroyed in the Great Fire, and not rebuilt. It was called the Less to distinguish it from a larger church of the same name in the same street, and on the Cellars, from the vaults or arches on which it stood.

“The steeple and choir of this church standeth on an arched gate, being the entry to a great house called Coldharbour.” – Stow, p. 88.

The burying-ground and parish still remain; the church of Allhallows the Great serving indifferently for both parishes.

Source: A Handbook for London, Past and Present. Peter Cunningham. Published by John Murray 1849.