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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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lyngbesyd . . .; and anodur theyff that dyd long toone of Master Comtroller . . . dyd kylle RecherdEggylston, the Comtrollers tayller, and kylled himin the Long Acurs, the bak-syd Charyng Cros:ie; tuaries, the Great and the Little ; or rather, per-haps, two branches of the same institution. Atthe west end of the latter, in the time of Maitland,towards the end of the reign of George II., therewere remains of a prodigious strong stone build-ing, of two hundred and ninety feet square, orseventy-two feet and a half the lengtli of eachside; and the walls in thickness no less thantw^ity-five feet. This fabric originally had butone entrance or door below, and that in the eastside, with a window hard by, which seems to havebeen the only one below the height of twenty-twofeet of the building, where the walls were reducedto three feet in thickness, and contained fourwindows on the south side. The area of thisexceedingly strong tower, continues Maitland, The Saacluary.j THE TWO SANCTLARII-S. 487
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THE LUTLK sanctuary. (FroK a -D.uKi/it; />f y. 7) Smi/i, ICo^,) 488 OLD AND NEW LONDON. (The Almonry. (exclusive of the arched cavities in the walls),by a wall from east to west, three feet in thickness,was divided into two spaces, about eleven feeteach in width, representing a frame for bells, whichplainly evinces it to have been the strong BellTower that was erected in the Little Sanctuary, byEdward IIL, for the use of the collegiate churchof St. Stephen, and not, as Strype imagines it tohave been, the church of the Holy Innocents, fortliat was the church of St. Mary-le-Strand. Thewalls of this building, says Mr. Mackenzie Walcott,were of Kentish rag-stone, cemented with mortarmade of the same material. Three angles ofthe lower church were built solid, sixteen feetsquare. In the upper church square rooms weremade over these corners : probably one was thesacristans parvise, and another the revestry. Theprincipal gate was covered with plates of stoutiron, while the esplanade at the

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