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
A landscape, Gio. Franceso Bolognese.
A Madona, Parmegiano.
Woman taken in adultery, Allesandro Veronese.
Liberality and Modesty, Guido, after
CHISWELL _street_, near the Artillery ground, Moorfields.†
CHITTERLING _alley_, Beer lane, Tower street.
CHIVER’S _court_, Nightingale lane, in Limehouse, Fore street.‡
CHOIRISTER’S _rents_, near the Almonry.
CHOLMONDELEY’S _Almshouse_, in Church entry, Black Friars, was founded
by the Lady Cholmondeley for three poor women, each of whom receives
2_s._ a week.
CHRISTOPHER’S _alley_, 1. in the Borough. 2. Lombard street. 3. St.
Martin’s le Grand. 4. Middle turning, Shadwell. 5. Upper Moorfields.
_St._ CHRISTOPHER’S _alley_, St. Christopher’s court, Threadneedle
street.☐
_St._ CHRISTOPHER’S _Church_, by the Bank of England in Threadneedle
street, is dedicated to a Jewish convert and martyr, named before
his conversion Reprobus, but having, it is pretended, carried our
Saviour over a river, was thence named Christopher. Mention is made
of a church in this place so early as the year 1368. The present
edifice suffered greatly by the fire of London; but not so much as
to occasion its being rebuilt, and therefore being thoroughly
repaired, it continues on the ancient foot. The body is well
enlightened, and the tower is crowned with four handsome pinacles.
It is a very plain edifice, and indeed had it been ever so well
ornamented, it could not, in its present situation, have been seen
to advantage.
This church is a rectory, the patronage of which has been for above
three hundred years in the Bishop of London. The Rector, besides
other considerable advantages, receives 120_l._ a year in lieu of
tithes.
CHRISTOPHER’S _court_, 1. Cartwright street. 2. Rosemary lane.
_St._ CHRISTOPHER’S _court_, Threadneedle street.
CHRISTOPHER’S INN YARD, 1. Barnaby street. 2. St. Margaret’s hill.*
CHRIST’S CHURCH, Church street, Spitalfields. The district in which
this edifice stands was till lately considered as a hamlet in the
parish of Stepney: but the kind reception given to the persecuted
French protestants, greatly increased the number of the inhabitants
of this spot, and these refugees bringing the silk manufacture along
with them, soon brought affluence to the place, and with it a
multitude of new inhabitants. Hence this was constituted a distinct
parish from Stepney in the year 1728, and one of the fifty new
churches was ordered to be built here. The foundation was laid in
1723, and it was finished in four years.
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