. London . tins le Grand. The Churchof St. Bartholomews Priory was pulled down to the choirwhich was converted into a parish church. The bells wereput up in the tower of St. Sepulchre. The Church of theGrey Friars was spared, but as for its monuments—consider !There were buried here the queens of Edward I. andEdward II., the queen of David Bruce, an innumerable com-pany of great lords, nobles, and fighting men, with their damesand daughters. The place was a Campo Santo of mediaevalworthies. Their monuments, Stow writes, are wholly de-faced. There were nine tombs of alabaster and marble. TUDOR
. London . tins le Grand. The Churchof St. Bartholomews Priory was pulled down to the choirwhich was converted into a parish church. The bells wereput up in the tower of St. Sepulchre. The Church of theGrey Friars was spared, but as for its monuments—consider !There were buried here the queens of Edward I. andEdward II., the queen of David Bruce, an innumerable com-pany of great lords, nobles, and fighting men, with their damesand daughters. The place was a Campo Santo of mediaevalworthies. Their monuments, Stow writes, are wholly de-faced. There were nine tombs of alabaster and marble. TUDOR 209 environed with strikes of iron, in the choir, and one tombin the body of the church, also coped with iron, all pulleddown, besides sevenscore grave-stones of marble. The wholewere* sold for fifty pounds or thereabouts by Sir MartinBowes, goldsmith and alderman of London. Surely thecarved marble and sculptured alabaster did not teach thehated papistical superstitions ; yet they all went; and it was •. WJpl^ji^ INTERIOR OF ST. KATHERINES CHURCH BY THE TOWER with bare walls, probably washed white or yellow to hide thefrescoes, that the building became the parish church nowcalled Christ Church. The monastery buildings were con-verted into the Bluecoat School. Such was the fate of the greater houses. Add to thesethe smaller foundations, all whelmed in the common de-struction ; the colleges, such as that of St. Spirit, founded byWhittington ; that founded by Walworth ; that founded by P 2io LONDON Richard 111., attached to Allhallows Barking; St. Johns,Holywell; St. Thomas of Aeon, a rich foundation with alovely church; the College of Jesus; the Hospital of ; Jesus Commons; Elsing Spital ; and we begin torealise that London was literally a city of ruins. It is at first hard to understand how there should havebeen, even among the baser sort, so little reverence for thepast, so little regard for art ; that these treasure-houses ofprecious marbles and rare carvings sh
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