Walks in London . Mackonochie. The pecu-liarly bad character once attached to Baldwins Gardens and FulwoodsRents may be owing to the fact that these were amongst the places—cities of refuge insulated in the midst of London—which, by royalcharter, once gave sanctuary to criminals and debtors. Now, passing the handsome brick and terra-cotta buildings of thePrudential Insurance Offices (by Waterhouse, 1879), on the left wasFurnivals Inn (destroyed 1898), where Dickens began to write his Pickwick Papers, and where he represented John Westlock as havinghis chambers. 1 Named after Baldwin, one of th


Walks in London . Mackonochie. The pecu-liarly bad character once attached to Baldwins Gardens and FulwoodsRents may be owing to the fact that these were amongst the places—cities of refuge insulated in the midst of London—which, by royalcharter, once gave sanctuary to criminals and debtors. Now, passing the handsome brick and terra-cotta buildings of thePrudential Insurance Offices (by Waterhouse, 1879), on the left wasFurnivals Inn (destroyed 1898), where Dickens began to write his Pickwick Papers, and where he represented John Westlock as havinghis chambers. 1 Named after Baldwin, one of the royal gardeners of Elizabeth. 156 Walks in London There are snug little chambers in these Inns where the bachelors live ; and forthe desolate fellows they pretend to be, it is quite surprising how they get on. On the right is Barnards Inn (see vol. i. p. 87). At No. 123, onthe left, stood, till 1S98, the Old Bell Inn, an old hostelrie with oneof the most picturesque courtyards in England, surrounded by tiers. THE OLD BELL INX. of balconied galleries hung with brilliant flowers in summer. On itsfront were carved the arms of the Fowlers of Islington, once lords ofthe manor of Barnsbury. In 1637 the inn is mentioned by JohnTaylor, the Water-Poet. It is described by Black in the StrangeAdventures of a Phaeton. It belonged to Christs Hospital, whichallowed it to be pulled down and the site sold for building. Just atthe opening of the Holborn Viaduct—which annihilated the Heavy St. Andrews Church L57 Hill, and was constructed in 1866-69, to the great convenience oftraffic, and destruction of the picturesque — is (right) St. AndrewsChurch, which escaped the Fire, but was nevertheless mostly re-built by Wren in 1686. The lower part of the tower and the westwindow survive from the old church. Internally it is a bad likenessof St. Jamess, Piccadilly, with encircling galleries, a waggon-headedceiling, and in the east window some good stained glass of 1718, byPrice of York. The r


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