Lime Street Chapel was a Roman Catholic place of worship in the City of London, in use during a short period of the reign of James II and VII of Great Britain.
[2] The chapel constructed was evidently larger than the needs of a private household, and in March 1686 Robert Geffrye, the Lord Mayor, tried to have building stopped.
[3] Geffrye was encouraged to intervene by a group including the clerics Henry Compton and William Sherlock, and the Whig politician Robert Clayton.
[6][7] The school, in Fenchurch Street, was adjacent to the house and chapel, and was one of two in James II's London run by Jesuits.
[14] He was then of Clayton-le-Dale, and left a charitable foundation, "Stanford's Dole", with money to provide support for the poor, especially Catholics, of Stydd, Ribchester and the adjacent manor of Bailey.
[17] Lady Tempest, the daughter of Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 2nd Baronet put on trial and acquitted at York, as part of the Barnbow accusations which were an offshoot of the Popish Plot fabrications, was his aunt.