The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . tsof the adjoining ferryon the site of LondonBridge. After variouschanges, and beingrefounded as a prioryof canons regular inthe reign of Henry I.,it was destroyed byfire in 1213, and re-buil
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . tsof the adjoining ferryon the site of LondonBridge. After variouschanges, and beingrefounded as a prioryof canons regular inthe reign of Henry I.,it was destroyed byfire in 1213, and re-built by Peter deRupibus, Bishop ofWinchester, and guar-dian of the youngking Henry III. Thepresent fragment con-sists of the easterniarm and transept ofthis church, whichwas cruciform, and| (like St. Bartholo-mews) of the secondclass as regards mag-nitude. Its style,i wherever not patched,is therefore cooevalwith that of the Tem-ple Church choir, butthe exterior has great-i ly suffered from theadmixture of dates,especially the southi transept, which was\ probably remodelled| after another firethat destroyed thej priory in the reign ofI Richard II. Of thesame period, or later,is the design of theI pinnacles over thechoir aisles, and probably the carcase of the tower, which was bar-barized into its present aspect in the 17th century. The moreshameless pauperism of yet later times obtrudes itself in the. ST. MARY OVERY, FROM THE NAVE NOW DESTROYED. 142 ORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE—FIRST PERIOD. sides of the north transept; but its end*, and all the other partsof the exterior were, one by one, as funds could be afforded, under-going careful renovation in better stone than the original; when asudden reaction of parochial opinion, more merciless than any of theconflagrations of old Southwark, swept off the whole nave (till thenless patched than any other part), and thus one of those pricelesstreasures, of which England, and its capital especially, had so few tospare—a piece of original bui
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