Bow Church the people of Bow promised to acknowledge themselves as parishioners of Stepney and agreed to pay 24 shillings annually for repairs of the mother church, and to dispense with their attendance there, except on the feast of Saint Dunstan, and on the Wednesday in Whitsunweek, when they were to accompany the rest of the parishioners in procession to Saint Paul's Cathedral. In 1556 at Bow, during the reign of Mary I of England, and under the authority of Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London, many people were brought by cart from Newgate and burned at the stake in front of Bow
St. Peter's Church of Ireland, Drogheda Corporation of Drogheda gave £300 in 1771, was built for the Church by John Snetzler in London. Five great bells were hung in the old church, and these were severely damaged or destroyed by Cromwell's forces. The new Georgian church had one bell until 1791, when a peal of eight bells was cast by John Rudhall and hung for change-ringing. Save for the tenor bell being recast in 1889 by John Taylor & Co (as the Rudhall foundry had closed in 1835), the original bells remain, and are rung twice a week. After an arson attack on the church in