Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr03thor (find matches)
Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ESSEX WATER GATE, ESSEX STREET, STRAND. in the Admittance Book, where their signatures arepreserved. Hogarths picture, mentioned above,it may be interesting here to remark, was paintedat the instigation of Lord Mansfield, as the bestway of expending a legacy of ^200 left to thebenchers. The chapel possesses features of peculiat interest.It has Ijeen the oijinion of some antifiuaries that itis a restoration or reconstruction of a much earlier have assisted with his trowel in the building of tinschapel, as well as of the outer wall already men-tioned. Its size is 60 by 40 feet, and it is about44 feet high. The windows are filled with stainedglass of very brilliant colours, and the carved workof the oaken seats is of very chaste design, andsuperior execution, as specimens of the style pre-vailing in the reign of James I. The crypt underthe chapel, now dwarfed by the gradual raising of Lincolns Inn.) THE REVELS OF LINCOLNS LNN. 55
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5<5 OLD AND NEW LONDON. fLincolns Inn. the ground, was built, like the cloisters in theTemple, as a place for the students and lawyers to walk in and talk and confer their learnings.Mr. Peter Cunningham reminds us that the roundnave of the Temple Church was formerly used fora like purpose, and Butler and Pepys both alludeto the custom. This crypt was long reservedas a burial-place for the benchers of the Inn. Init sleeps the Puritan Baxter, by Thurloe, andnear him Alexander Brome, the Cavalier song-writer, and William Prynne, already mentioned,who wrote against the unloveliness of love-locks,and the inscription on whose grave was alreadyblotted out when Wood wrote his AthenaeOxonienses. The present noble hall and library, built of redbrick, with stone dressings, by the late Mr. PhilipHardwick, R.A., was commenced in 1S43. Thefirst stone of the hall was laid on the 20th of Aprilin that year by Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, thetreasurer of the society. It bears the followinginscripti

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