Church of St Giles's in the Fields, 1844. View of a London church designed by Henry Flitcroft: '...the present very handsome edifice was erected and completed in 1733; this being the third church built upon the church is built of Portland-stone, as are also the tower, and the tall and graceful spire, which are 160 feet high to the the tower is a clock, the dials of which are illuminated at night with gas - this being, if we remember rightly, the first improvement of the kind introduced into the metropolis'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.

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