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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ondon, which is affixed to the north wall, but itis so much elevated as to be almost illegible. A tablethanging against the north wall, records the name of LordTrenchaunt, before-mentioned as a benefactor to the church,as it does also that Sir John Chadworth, or Shadworth,sometime Lord Mayor of London, who gave to this churcha parsonage house, a vestry, and church-yard in the year1430, was buried in a vault in this chancel. The vignette on the following page represents the exte-rior of St. Mildreds church, which, as may be seen, is 1 In the parish church at Hammersmith on the north side of the chancelis an urn surmounted by a bust of King Charles I. with this inscription ; This effigies was erected by the speciall apointment of Sir Nicholas Crispe,Kt. and Baronet, as a gratefull commemoration of that glorious martyr, KingCharles I. of blessed memory. Beneath appears the following ; In thisurne is entombed the heart of Sir N. Crisp. Died 26th February, 1665. ST. MILDREDS, BREAD STREET.
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chiefly noticeable for the lofty brick tower surmounted bya wooden spire covered with lead, situated at the east endof it, on the south side. The west end, shewn in theengraving is faced with stone, but the remainder of thebuilding is of brick. The parsonage house formerly ad-joined the church on the south side, but becoming ruinous,was lately pulled down. ST. LAWRENCE, JEWRY. The respect and reverence with which buildings appro-priated to the services of religion have ever been regarded,(even when dedicated to an unknown God,) havepreserved many of them to the world as great connectinglinks in the history of nations, where all other recordshave been destroyed. The oldest remaining monumentsof any people—whether in Mexico, Egypt, India, Greece,or Rome, are their Temples ; indeed in many cases, as wehave said, they are the only evidence left of what has been.In modern England the sites once dedicated to sacred pur-poses, have continued to the present time, except in somefew instances

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