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Bevis Marks
City, St. Mary Axe. (EC3) Formerly Bury's Marks. Here stood the city mansion and gardens of the Abbots of Bury. The corruption of Bury's Marks to Bevis Marks is undoubted, though not obvious. Stow describes it as "one great house, large of rooms, fair courts, and garden plots," some time pertaining to the Bassets, and afterwards to the Abbots of Bury. (Reference: Thornbury's Old and New London, vol. II, p. 165) Immortalised by Dickens in The Old Curiosity Shop. "Sally Brass" and her brother "Sampson" lived in Bevis Marks. Here is the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue which the Disraelis used to attend.
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