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The Church builder (1862)

Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels · London : Rivingtons · leaf 359

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171 ST. EAETHOLOMEW-LE-GEAKl>, SMITHFIELE. are here given, both in its existing and its restored state, if the object be accomplished, will exhibit one of the noblest specimens of mediaeval art, not only in the metropolis, hut in the kingdom. The tower, represented in the annexed woodcut, has no… … OLljEulj cf ^t. ^intljolomebj-le-dnmii). sions to a Norman ancestry, nor, perhaps, to much elegance, but there is at the entrance from Smithfield a most exquisitely beautiful specimen of the pointed arch, rich in recessed mouldings, but, like every thing else here, it is marred by the encroachment…

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