London and Its Environs Described, vol. 1 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 1 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
This church has a considerable space before it, which is entered by a
handsome pair of iron gates. It is a neat edifice, with two series of
windows, and a handsome balustrade round the top. The tower, which
rises square, consists only of two stages, and round the top is a
balustrade with a pinacle at each corner; on the crown of each is
placed a pine apple, from which rises the fanes. On the inside, the
church is extremely neat and well finished.
The living is a rectory, said to be worth 600_l._ a year, in the
patronage of the Duke of Montague. _Stow, Maitland, English
architecture._
_St._ ANDREW’S _court_, Holborn hill, so called from the above church.
_St._ ANDREW _Hubbard_, a church which stood between St. Botolph’s lane,
and Love lane, in Little Eastcheap, where the King’s weigh-house now
stands; but being destroyed by the fire of London, and not rebuilt,
the parish was united to that of St. Mary at Hill.
_St._ ANDREW _Undershaft_, at the corner of St. Mary Ax in Leadenhall
street, and in Aldgate ward. There stood in this place a church
dedicated to the same Saint so early as in 1362, which was pulled down
in the year 1532, and the present structure erected in its room. It
obtained the name of _Undershaft_ from a may-pole, which was anciently
called a shaft, being annually raised in the street near it on
May-day, and was taller than the steeple.
This church is a plain gothic structure, with a well enlightened body,
and a square tower terminated by battlements, with pinacles at the
corners, within which rises a turret that contains the bell. It is a
rectory, in the patronage of the Bishop of London. The Incumbent
receives 120_l._ a year by tithes.
_St._ ANDREW _Wardrobe_, on the east side of Puddledock hill, in Castle
Baynard ward, took its name from a great royal wardrobe erected there
in the reign of King Edward III. There was a church on the same spot
dedicated to St. Andrew in the year 1322: but the present structure
was not built till the year 1670, when it was erected in the place of
one burnt by the fire of London. The body is enlightened by two rows
of windows, and the tower has neither turret, pinacles nor spire.
This church is a rectory, in the gift of the Crown, and to this parish
that of St. Ann’s Black Friars is annexed. The Rector receives by act
of parliament 140_l._ a year in lieu of tithes. _Newc. Repert.
Eccles._
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