Identifier: churchesoflondon00godw (find matches)
Title: The churches of London: a history and description of the ecclesiastical edifices of the metropolis
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Godwin, George, 1813-1888 Britton, John, 1771-1857
Subjects: Church buildings
Publisher: London, C. Tilt (etc.)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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n the part of the crown. The presentRector is the Rev. J. Mitchel, M. A. and the Rev. J. T.Bennett, M. A. is the Curate. The present church, which is principally of stone, waserected by Sir Christopher Wren in 1677, at a cost of£5,500. Strype says, it was the first that was completedafter the fire. The interior is a well-proportioned room,with Corinthian pilasters against the walls, at certain inter-vals, bearing an entablature ; but is quite devoid of eccle- 1 Malcolms Londinium Redivivum. Vol. IV. p. 545. ST. NICHOLAS, COLE ABBEY. 9 siastical character. The ceiling is divided into panels.The pulpit, organ screen, altar piece, and pewing, are ofoak, and display carvings worthy of notice. 1 There are several modern monumental tablets on thewalls : the one last erected is, Sacred to the memory ofElizabeth Ann, wife of Mr. Nicholas Maugham, of EarlStreet, Blackfriars, and only daughter of Mr. John Shef-field, of Brixton Hill, Surrey, who died July 2nd, 1835,in the 24th year of her age.
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1 In the parish Register Books, there is a list of persons, with their ageswhom King James II. had touched for the cure of the Evil at his coronation! 4 ST. NICHOLAS, COLE ABBEY. The exterior presents a series of circular-headed win-dows in the east end, and north side,—with horizontalcaps or heads over them supported on trusses. The wholeis surmounted by a string-course and parapet, which displaymouldings bolder and more simple, than are usual in thebuildings erected at the same period ; and this peculiarity isalso observable in the dressings, (to speak technically,)or decorations, of the windows just mentioned. The tower, (which is seen in the vignette,) rises fromthe ground at the north west angle of the building. It hasrusticated quoins, or corners,—(that is, the stones at theangles project from the face of the tower, and are sepa-rated by grooves, a method originally intended to be in imi-tation of a somewhat inartificial mode of construction,)and is surmounted by a spire, wh

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