The history and antiquities of Boston .. . a great distance. It is lookedupon as the finest in England, and is280 foot high, or better, and was begunto be built at midsummer, 1309, dameMargaret Tilney laying the first length of the church is equal to theheight of the steeple, ninety-four are 365 steps, fifty-two windows,and twelve pillars, which are designed to parallel the days, weeks andmonths, of the year. Its handsome tower was built after the modelof that of the great church at Antwerp. At the summit of this toweris a beautiful lantern, for a guide to seamen, which c
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . a great distance. It is lookedupon as the finest in England, and is280 foot high, or better, and was begunto be built at midsummer, 1309, dameMargaret Tilney laying the first length of the church is equal to theheight of the steeple, ninety-four are 365 steps, fifty-two windows,and twelve pillars, which are designed to parallel the days, weeks andmonths, of the year. Its handsome tower was built after the modelof that of the great church at Antwerp. At the summit of this toweris a beautiful lantern, for a guide to seamen, which can be seen fortymiles. It was a figurative saying of some of the pilgrims who settledthis Boston, that the lamp in the lantern of St. Botolphs ceased to burnwhen Cotton left that church, to become a shinin<ness of New England. || St. Botolphs has no galleries, and yet it will contain five thousandpersons, as estimated at the obsequies of the late Princess nave is lofty and grand ; the ceiling, representing a stone vault-. ST. botolphs CHVRCH, BOSTOX, ^ fight in the wilder- mg, is said to be of Irish oak. It consists of fourteen groined arches with light spandrils, which, by their elegant curves, intersections andembowments, produce a beautiful effect. The upper part of the naveis lighted by twenty-eight clerstory windows, between the springs of * There was a return of the population in ^ From a splendidly engraved view in 17G8, 3470 ; in 1801, 5926 ; in 1811, 8113 ; Thompsons work. in 1831,11,240 ; in 1841, 34,680. — Dugdale, || Both Bostons hare reason to honor his vt supra, City Doc. No. 63. Note hj Hon. J. P. memory ; and New England-Boston most of Bigelow, and Gortons Topog. Did. aU, which oweth its name and being to him, f From 1612 to 1633. —Thompsons Colkc- more than to any one person in the world. — tions, p. 86. Dr. Increase Mather. X In the Magna Britannia, Antiqua et Nova,ut supra. 104 HISTORY OF BOSTON. [1630. the arches. The chancel,
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