London and Its Environs Described, vol. 4 (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. 4 (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
With respect to this noble edifice, says the author of the _Review_, “I
could wish that a view was opened from the Mews to St. Martin’s church;
I don’t know any of the modern buildings about town which better
deserves such an advantage. The portico is at once elegant and august,
and if the steps arising from the street to the front could have been
made regular, and on a line from end to end, it would have given it a
very considerable grace; but as the situation of the ground would not
allow it, this is to be esteemed a misfortune rather than a fault. The
round columns at each angle of the church are very well contrived, and
have a very fine effect in the profile of the building; the east end is
remarkably elegant, and very justly challenges a particular applause. In
short, if there is any thing wanting in this fabric, ’tis a little more
elevation, which, I presume, is apparently wanted within, and would
create an additional beauty without. I can’t help thinking too that, in
complaisance to the galleries, the architect has reversed the order of
the windows, it being always usual to have the large ones nearer the
eye, and the small, by way of Attic story, on the top.”
This church is a vicarage, in the gift of the Bishop of London.
_St._ MARTIN’S _Church yard_, St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross.
_St._ MARTIN’S _court_, a large, handsome court, with a free stone
pavement in St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross.
_St._ MARTIN’S IRONMONGER LANE, a church which stood at the corner of
Church alley, in Ironmonger lane, and in Cheap ward; but being destroyed
by the dreadful fire of London, and not rebuilt, the parish was united
to St. Olave Jewry. _Newc. Rep. Eccles._
_St._ MARTIN’S _lane_, 1. Opposite Northumberland house in the Strand;
thus named from the church of St. Martin’s in the Fields. 2. Canon
street, Walbrook; so named from the church of St. Martin’s Orgar, which
was formerly on the east side of it.
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