The City Churches: A Short Guide with Illustrations & MapsSwarthmore Press, 1924 - 135 pages |
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Abchurch Aldgate altar arches architect architecture Bartholomew beautiful Benet Bishop Bishopsgate Botolph Bow Church Bread Street brick Bride's building buried burnt carving Cathedral chancel chapel choir church of St church was built CHURCHES BUILT churchyard City churches close Cole Abbey columns Cornhill Cripplegate crypt decoration destroyed dome Dunstan East end East window Eastcheap erected Exterior Fire Friars gallery Garlickhithe Giles Gothic Grinling Gibbons HALLOWS BARKING Hallows Staining Henry VIII House Inigo Jones interesting Interior James John King lantern large number Lombard Street London Wall Lothbury Ludgate Martin Mary Mary-le-Bow Michael monasteries monuments nave Newgate Street Nicholas Norman Norman architecture north side Olave old church original parish church parishioners Paternoster Royal pews Portland stone present church priory church projecting clock pulled pulpit rebuilt by Wren Renaissance restored Sir Christopher Wren spire stained steeple Stephen style tower transept united with St vane vestry W. J. Loftie Walbrook Watling Street West Wren's churches
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Page 46 - Robinson's little son going up with me; and there I did see the houses at that end of the Bridge all on fire, and an infinite great fire on this and the other side the end of the Bridge; which, among other people, did trouble me for poor little Michell and our Sarah on the bridge.
Page 126 - JOHN NEWTON, CLERK, Once an infidel and libertine, A servant of slaves in Africa, Was by the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, Preserved, restored, pardoned, And appointed to preach the faith he Had long laboured to destroy, Near 16 years at Olney in Bucks ; And — years in this church.
Page 24 - Barking steeple, and there saw the saddest sight of desolation that I ever saw; every where great fires, oyle-cellars, and brimstone, and other things burning. I became afraid to stay there long, and therefore down again as fast as I could, the fire being spread as far as I could see it; and to Sir W.
Page 45 - My lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there ; I do beseech you send for some of them.
Page 47 - Walked thence, and saw all the towne burned, and a miserable sight of Paul's church, with all the roofs fallen, and the body of the quire fallen into St. Fayth's; Paul's school also, L/udgate, and Fleet Street. My father's house, and the church, and a good part of the Temple the like.
Page 46 - Some of our maids sitting up late last night to get things ready against our feast to-day, Jane called us up about three in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City.
Page 23 - About two in the morning my wife calls me up and tells me of new cryes of fire, it being come to Barkeing Church, which is the bottom of our lane.
Page 46 - Having staid, and in an hour's time seen the fire rage every way ; and nobody, to my sight, endeavouring to quench it, but to remove their goods, and leave all to the fire; and, having seen it get as far as the Steele-yard, and the wind mighty high, and driving it into the City; and everything, after so long a drought, proving combustible, even the very stones of churches ; and, among other things, the poor steeple by which pretty Mrs.
Page 63 - I am going to stand godfather; I don't like the business; I cannot muster up decorum for these occasions ; I shall certainly disgrace the font. I was at Hazlitt's marriage, and had like to have been turned out several times during the ceremony. Anything awful makes me laugh.
Page 49 - ... perspectives, and many other artificial, mathematical, and magical curiosities, a waywiser, a thermometer, a monstrous magnet, conic, and other sections, a balance on a demi-circle ; most of them of his own, and that prodigious young scholar Mr.