Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . 34, and * Others, however, hold that he lie;, 1 lined M Copford, in Essex,t Sec Vol HI-, !? ?«• OLD AND NEW LONDON. t Southwark. finished in about two years. The architect wasa Mr. John Price, and the expense of the buildingwas defrayed by a grant of ^6,000 out ot thefunds appropriated for building fifty new churchesin the metropolis and its vicinity. It was repairedin 1808, at a cost of ,£9,000. The plan of thebuilding is a parallelogram, with a square tower atthe west end, surmounted by a second storey of anoctagon
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places . 34, and * Others, however, hold that he lie;, 1 lined M Copford, in Essex,t Sec Vol HI-, !? ?«• OLD AND NEW LONDON. t Southwark. finished in about two years. The architect wasa Mr. John Price, and the expense of the buildingwas defrayed by a grant of ^6,000 out ot thefunds appropriated for building fifty new churchesin the metropolis and its vicinity. It was repairedin 1808, at a cost of ,£9,000. The plan of thebuilding is a parallelogram, with a square tower atthe west end, surmounted by a second storey of anoctagon form, and crowned by an octangular spire, that the large bell of this church is tolled nightly,and is probably a relic of the curfew custom. About midway between St. Georges Church andLondon Bridge, stood in very remote times theMarshalsea, or prison of the Court of the KnightMarshal, in which all disputes arising betweenservants of the royal household, and offences com-mitted within the Kings Court, were adjudicatedupon. Its jurisdiction extended for twelve miles. THE OLD TABARD INN, IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. finished with a ball and vane. The church through-out is very plain. It is built of dark red brick,with stone dressings, in a heavy Dutch style, andhas altogether a tasteless aspect. In looking atsuch a building as this, well may we exclaim inthe words of a divine of the nineteenth century, Ichabod ! the glory of the Church has never observe the new churches on the Surreyside of the river without imagining that their longbodies and short steeples look, from a distance,like the rudders of so many sailing-barges. Whereis the grand oriel ? where is the old square tower ?What have we in their stead ? A common granarycasement and a shapeless spire. Pennant de-scribes the steeple of St. Georges Church as mostawkwardly standing upon stilts. It may be added round Whitehall, the City of London excepted. Itwas once of high dignity, and coeval with theCourts of Com
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