Identifier: oldnewlondonnarr05thor (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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But all is dwarfed by the
chimney-shaft, which is very nearly the height of
the Monument, being only ten feet short of it.
The shaft is square, and the sides are relieved by
three recessed panels, arched over a short distance
below the entablature which surmounts the shaft.
Altogether, this chimney really makes a co-
spicious and beautiful object as one comes down
the river. The foundations of this great pile of
brickwork are carrieddown into the London clay.
The system of the main-drainage of London
which has been carried out by the Metropolitan

The 'Monster Tea-Gardens' 1820 (Q110070730)

Board of Works, comprises 117 square miles of
sewers, and, as each was concluded, it added to
the health and comfort of the inhabitants of the
metropolis. The main sewers are eighty-two miles
long, and cost about £4,607,000 ; and the local
boards and vestries assisted in completing the
work, which comprised 635 miles of sewers.
At the western extremity of Buckingham Palace
Road, near Ebury Square, stands a handsome
Gothic church, built in the severest Early English
style, which has acquired some celebrity as St.
Barnabas, Pimlico. It was built in 1848-50, as a
chapel of ease to St. Pauls, Knightsbridge, under
the auspices of its then incumbent, the Rev. W.
J. E. Bennett. Attached to it are large schools,
a presbytery or college for the officiating clergy,

Pimlico.] ST. BARNABAS CHURCH. 43
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44 OLD AND NEW LONDON. [Pimlico.
JENNY'S WHIM BRIDGE 1750

who must almost of necessity be celibates. The
church gained some notoriety during the earlier
part of the Ritualistic movement, and, indeed, the
services Avere not allowed to be carried on without
sundry popular outbursts of indignation. Of late,
however, this church has ceased to occupy the
public attention, having been fairly eclipsed by
other churches, which are marked by a still more
" advanced " Ritual. The church is a portion of
a college founded on St. Barnabas Day, 1846,
and is built upon ground presented by the first
Marquis of Westminster. The fabric has a Caen-
stone tower and spire, 170 feet high, with a peal of
ten bells, the gifts of as many parishioners. The
windows throughout are filled with stained glass,
with subjects from the life of St. Barnabas. An
oak screen, richly carved, separates the nave from
the chancel; the open roof is splendidly painted,
and the superb altar-plate, the font, the illuminated
" office books," and other costly ornaments, were
the gifts of private individuals
the

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