London and Its Environs Described, vol. 2 (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. 2 (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
The gardens were well designed, and the canals large and noble. The
chapel was a singularity both in its building and the beauty of the
workmanship, and the late Duke maintained there at one time a full
choir, and had divine worship performed with the best music, after
the manner of the chapel royal. But all this grandeur was soon at an
end. The furniture and curiosities were brought to public auction;
and this superb edifice quite demolished. _Tour through Great
Britain._
The land whereon this structure was erected was lately purchased by
Mr. Hallet, an eminent cabinet-maker, who acquired a large fortune
in that business, and he has built an elegant small house upon the
ruins of the Duke of Chandos’s large and magnificent seat.
EDLIN’S _gate_, Tooley’s street.
EDMONTON, a village in Middlesex, in the road to Ware, seven miles and
a half from London.
EDMUND’S _court_, Prince’s street, Soho.
_St._ EDMUND THE KING, a church situated on the north side of Lombard
street, in Langborne ward, and thus denominated from its dedication
to St. Edmund King of the East Angles, who was barbarously murdered
by the Pagan Danes in the year 870, for his steadfast adherence to
the Christian religion. The name Grasschurch was once added to this;
but it is now disused: this last name took its rise from an herb
market near the church.
The first sacred edifice in this place, and of this name, was built
under the Saxon heptarchy: but the last old church was destroyed in
the fire of 1666, and the present structure was finished in 1690.
The length of this structure from north to south is 69 feet, and the
breadth from east to west 39. The altar is placed at the north end.
It has a square tower, upon which a short spire rises, with its base
fixed on a broad lanthorn.
This church is a rectory in the patronage of the Archbishop of
Canterbury; but in ecclesiastical affairs it is subject to the
Archdeacon of London; and the parish of St. Nicholas Acons being
united to it, the profits of the Rector are almost doubled; he
receives in lieu of tithes 180_l._ a year.
EDWARDS’S _Almshouse_, in the parish of Christ Church, Surry, was
built and endowed by the trustees of Mr. Edward Edwards, a citizen
and mason of London, for such poor persons of that parish as receive
no alms from that or any other parish. Each person has one room, an
allowance of 40_s._ a year; and once in two years a purple gown of
twenty shillings value.
EDWARD’S _court_, 1. Oxendon street.† 2. Panton street.†
EDWARD’S _rents_, Islington.†
EDWARD’S _street_, 1. Berwick street.† 2. Hare street, Spitalfields.†
EDWARD’S _wharf_, Durham yard in the Strand.†
EEL’S _yard_, in the Minories.†
EGGLIN’S _gateway_, Tooley street.†
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