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 — John Shaqi
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 other officers are, a Confessor of the King’s houshold, whose
office is to read prayers every morning to the family, to visit the
sick, to examine and prepare communicants; and to inform such as
desire advice in any case of conscience or point of religion. Ten
Priests in Ordinary, sixteen gentlemen of the Chapel Royal, who with
the Priests perform in the chapel the office of divine service, in
praying, singing, &c. a master of the singing boys, of whom there are
ten for the service of the chapel; a composer, two organists, a
lutenist, a violist, and other officers.
CHAPELS. Though there are 115 churches within this city, and the bills
of mortality, and above 120 meeting houses of dissenters, yet the
chapels of the established religion are very numerous, as will appear
from the following list.
1. Archbishop of Canterbury’s chapel, at Lambeth. 2. Ask’s almshouse
chapel, at Hoxton. 3. Audley street chapel. 4. Bancroft’s almshouse
chapel. 5. Banqueting house chapel, Whitehall. 6. Berwick street
chapel, Old Soho. 7. Bridewell hospital chapel. 8. Charter house
chapel. 9. College almshouse chapel, Deadman’s place. 10. Conduit
street chapel. 11. Coopers almshouse chapel, Ratcliff. 12. Curzon
street chapel. 13. Dacre’s chapel, Westminster. 14. Draper’s almshouse
chapel, Blackman street. 15. also at Newington Butts. 16. Duke’s
street chapel, Westminster. 17. Ely house chapel, Holborn hill. 18.
Fishmongers almshouse chapel, Newington Butts. 19. Fleet Prison
chapel. 20. Foundling hospital chapel. 21. Gray’s Inn chapel, Gray’s
Inn. 22. Great Queen street chapel, Lincoln’s Inn fields. 23. Gresham
College chapel, Bishopsgate street. 24. Grosvenor square chapel,
Audley’s street. 25. Guildhall chapel. 26. Guy’s hospital chapel,
Southwark. 27. Hill’s chapel, Rochester row, Westminster. 28.
Jeffries’s hospital chapel, Kingsland road. 29. Kensington palace
chapel. 30. King’s bench prison chapel, Southwark. 31. Kingsland
hospital chapel, Kingsland. 32. King’s street chapel, Oxford street.
33. Knight’s-bridge chapel, Knight’s-bridge. 34. Lamb’s chapel,
Monkwell street. 35. Lincoln’s Inn chapel, Chancery lane. 36. Lock
hospital chapel, Southwark. 37. Long Acre chapel, Long Acre. 38.
London infirmary chapel, Whitechapel. 39. London workhouse chapel,
Bishopsgate street. 40. Ludgate prison chapel. 41. Magdalen hospital
chapel, Goodman’s fields. 42. May fair chapel, May fair. 43. Mercers
chapel, Cheapside. 44. New Chapel, Westminster. 45. Newgate prison
chapel. 46. New street chapel, St. Giles’s in the fields. 47. Owen’s
almshouse chapel, Islington. 48. Oxendon chapel, near the Haymarket.
49. Oxford chapel, Marybon fields. 50. Palmer’s hospital chapel,
Westminster. 51. Petticoat lane chapel, Whitechapel. 52. Poultry
Compter chapel. 53. Queen square chapel, Westminster. 54. Queen street
chapel, Bloomsbury. 55. Ram’s chapel, Homerton, Hackney. 56. Rolls
chapel, Chancery lane. 57.
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