. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. , part of the nave and tower being foundrepairable, a body of French protestants, in communion with thechurch of England, obtained a lease of the tower and ruinous navefrom the minister and church-wardens, and got it confirmed byparliament: in pursuance of which, the purchasers re-erected thechurch for their own use. Sir William Cromer, lord mayor of London in 1413, gave by hislast will, dated 1421, his house in Sweetings alley, and his housesand gardens in Crutched friars, for the repairs and ornaments ofthis
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. , part of the nave and tower being foundrepairable, a body of French protestants, in communion with thechurch of England, obtained a lease of the tower and ruinous navefrom the minister and church-wardens, and got it confirmed byparliament: in pursuance of which, the purchasers re-erected thechurch for their own use. Sir William Cromer, lord mayor of London in 1413, gave by hislast will, dated 1421, his house in Sweetings alley, and his housesand gardens in Crutched friars, for the repairs and ornaments ofthis church, and for the use of the poor. The French church which was built upon its site after the greatfire, must have been of smaller dimensions than the original, as awide space remained between the front of it and the porch of theold church now existing. It was a plain edifice of brick, with archedwindows, nearly square ; the engraving below was taken from asketch made a few days prior to its destruction, and will avoid thenecessity of further description. 208 HISTORY OF French Church, 1824. The interior was equally plain, it had galleries attached to thenorth, south, and west sides, supported on small wooden pulpit and desks were affixed to the pier between the two east-ern windows, in the place which the altar screen should have occu-pied. The screen was, in consequence, placed in one side of itfurther northward; it was inscribed with the commandments, apostlescreed, and Lords prayer, in French. The ceiling was plain andhorizontal. When this church was taken down in 1824, the site was markedby a dwarf wall and iron rails. The porch still remains, and forms a gateway to the buryingground ; the entrance is modern, and occupies a portion of a windowwhich was anciently over it; the arch of this window is acutelypointed, the tracery which remains shews a circle enclosing sixsweeps; the workmanship of the whole is rude, the period atwhich it was built the fourt
Size: 2240px × 1116px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorallenthomas18031833, bookcentury1800, bookidhistoryant
