at the west end is a very large
marble monument in memory of Dorothy Clarke, and her second husband. A
great marble urn upon it is said by Bowack to have been the work of
Grinling Gibbons, and to have cost L300. A memorial window to Archbishop
Tait is fixed in the west end of the south aisle. In the churchyard are
the tombs of Bishops Compton, Robinson, Gibson, Sherlock, Hayter,
Terrick, and Lowth. Here also is the grave of Theodore Hook, the wit,
with a perfectly plain stone at the head recording his death, "24th Aug.
1841 in the 53rd year of his age."

Near the entrance to what are now the public gardens stood Pryor's Bank,
a well-known house, built about the beginning of the eighteenth century
in an ancient style. It was originally called Vine Cottage, and was very
elaborately fitted up. Nearly all the doors were surrounded with carving
and golding. Many of them were of solid oak, and the panelling in the
rooms corresponded. Two quaint old panels of painted wood in one of the
reception-rooms bore curious figures on pedestals; underneath one who
was in ecclesiastical robes was written: "John Baylis, Lord Pryor, 1554,
of Werlock Abbey"; and under the other: "William of Wickham, 1366,
Bishop of Winchester." Close by Pryor's Bank stood Egmont Lodge, where
Theodore Hook lived. It was a small house, pulled down in 1855. The
aspect of the whole of this part has been completely changed of late
years by the building of a river-wall, and the laying out as a public
garden of the strip of ground by the river called Bishop's Park.

The grounds of this public park are decorated with flower-beds and
supplied with seats. On part of the space once stood Craven Cottage,
built by the Margravine of Brandenburg when she was Countess Craven. Sir
E. Bulwer-Lytton lived here from 1840 to 1846. At the beginning of
Bishop's Avenue is the entrance to the Manor House, or Fulham Palace, as
it is commonly called, the residence of the Bishop of London. Passing
between two lodges of red brick, and following a short drive, we come to
a massive gateway with heavy oak doors. Through this lies the first
courtyard, very little altered from Faulkner's print in 1813. The Manor
of Fulham, as we have seen already, has belonged to the See of London
since about 691, when it was given to Bishop Erkenwald and his
successors by "Tyrtilus, a bishop, with the consent of Sigehard, king of
the east Saxons and the king of the Mercians." Lysons adds that
Tyrtilus, B