Identifier: environsoflondon01lyso (find matches)
Title: The environs of London: being an historical account of the towns, villages, and hamlets, within twelve miles of that capital interspersed with biographical anecdotes
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Lysons, Daniel, 1762-1834
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Publisher: London : printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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nd two aifles : at the weft; end is a fmall embattled tower, compofed of the fame materials. A church is mentioned inDoomfday. In Bifhop Edindons Regifter at Winchefter, is a com-miftlon dated 1346, for reconciling Camberwell church which had beenpolluted by bloodfhed . The prefent ftrudure, I imagine, was erededtowards the beginning of the reign of Henry the Eighth. The architecture of the windows, and of the arches which feparate the nave P. R. - Ellz. Rot. 37. Lord Treafurers tors of this manor, will be given under Dept Remembrancers Office. ford, ■s ColesEfcheats.HarleianMSS. 7S9-P-2S •» lb. Harl. MSS. 758. p. 156. Jb. 759. p. 25.^ By Mr. Windhams papers. Pat. I Mar. pt. 7. May 30. m. 25.A more particular account of the proprie- * Regift. Winton. W. de Edindon, pt. ii.f. 5. b. When a church had been polluted by any accident of this nature, it was former-ly held necefTary that it Ihould undergo a cere-mony fomething different from confecration, which was termed reconciliation. from
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Portraits on Glafs (glass) in Camberwell Church (of the mulchamp family of Peckham). CAMBERWELL. 73 from the alfles, proves that it could not have been built at a much earlier period ; and it is probable that the north aifle was built in1520, having that date in the eaft window. The chancel appears tobe of the fame age; it is of a fingular form, being the fedlion of anhexagon. The fouth-weft part of the church was much enlarged inthe year 1786.—The new building is of brick. The eaft window of the north aifle contains feveral portraits paint- Portraits in the window on glafs. Aubrey defcribes them as a man kneeling at a fald- of the northftool, and his ten fons behind him ; and a woman kneeling in like manner, with her ten daughters. The window has been much mutilated ; the heads, however, of all the men, and nine of the women,remain : fome of the principal figures are given In the annexed plate, coloured after the originals. An imperfect infcription is fufficientlyent

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