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ABC/188
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London churches of the 17th and 18th centuries from the designs of Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor and James Gibbs with historical and descriptive accounts
Date(s)
- 1896 (Creation)
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1 volume
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(2 Jan 1842-10 May 1904)
Biographical history
Architect and museum curator
ODNB Entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/31891
ODNB Entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/31891
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A Volume that draws the reader's attention towards the remarkable development of the Ecclesiastical Buildings erected in London in the 17th and 18th centuries, from the Designs of Sir Christopher Wren and of his immediate successors. It offers an Introduction, Descriptive and Critical texts and a series of illustrations (photographs, measured drawings, plans and elevations) that depict representative constructions. Buildings included: St. Alban, Wood Street; Allhallows, The Great Thames Street; Allhallows, Bread Street; Allhallows, Lombard Street; Allhallows, Barking; St. Andrew, Holborn; St. Andrew, Wardrobe; St. Anne and St. Agnes, Aldersgate; St. Anne, Limehouse; St. Antholin, Budge Row; St. Augustine and St. Faith; St. Bartholomew, Exchange; St. Benet, Fink; St. Benet, Paul's Wharf; St. Benet, Gracechurch; St. Bride, Fleet Street; St. Catherine Cree; Christ Church, Newgate; Christ Church, Spitalfields; St. Christopher-le-Stocks; St. Clement, Danes; St. Clement, Eastcheap; St. Dionis, Backchurch; St. Dunstan in the East; St. Edmund the King, Lombard Street; St. George, Bloomsbury; St. George, Botolph Lane; St. Giles in the Fields; St. James, Garlickhythe; St. James, Picadilly; St. Lawrence, Jewry; St. Leonard, Shoreditch; St. Magnus, London Bridge; St. Margaret, Pattens; St. Margaret, Lothbury; St. Martin in the Fields; St. Martin, Ludgate; St. Mary, Aldermanbury; St. Mary at Hill; St. Mary-le-Bow; St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street; St. Mary, Abchurch; St. Mary, Somerset; St. Mary, Aldermary; St. Mary, Woolnoth; St. Mary-le-Strand; St. Mathew, Friday Street; St. Michael, Cornhill; St. Michael, Wood Street; St. Michael, Queenhythe; St. Michael, Bassishaw; St. Michael, Paternoster Royal; St. Mildred, Bread Street; St. Mildred, Poultry; St. Nicholas, Cole Abbey; St. Olave Jewry; St. Paul's Cathedral; St. Paul, Covent Garden; St. Peter, Cornhill; St. Stephen, Walbrook; St. Stephen, Coleman Street; St. Swithin, London Stone; St. Vedast, Foster; St. John, Westminster; St. Matthew, Spring Gardens.
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- English
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Loose spine and some loose pages