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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
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may nevertheless be pre--;sumed that both the ancient church dedicated to;St. Paul in London, and this dedicated to St Peter ,in Westminster, were among the earliest works of thefirst converts to Christianity in Britain. With theirreligion the Christians introduced a new manner ofbuilding, and their great aim seems to have been,by affecting loftiness and ornament, to bring the .<?1 OLD AND NEW LONDON. rWeslminster AtJbeyr- plain simplicity of the Pagan architects into con-tempt. Sebert has been generally accreditedwith having conducted the building of the earliestchurch on this site, or, at all events, with havingcompleted that part of it which now forms theeastern angle. From Seberts death up to the time About the middle of the eleventh century,Edward the Confessor resolved thoroughly to restorethe building, or, as some authors state, to recon^struct it entirely, in the Saxon style. For thispurpose large sums of money were given to thei monks by the king; and his nobles, like true
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WHITEHALL AND WESTMINSTER. (From Aggas Map.) of Edward the Confessor, the Abbey, it appears,remained a monument of the sacrilegious fury ofthe times, and suffered greatly from the ravagesof the Danes. King Edgar, through the influenceof Dunstan, is said to have effected some restora-tion of the fabric, and to have appropriated it tothe order of St. Benedict, establishing there twelvemonks, with endowments sufficient for their main-tenance. courtiers, copied his e.xample. The plan of thisbuilding was that of a cross, which naturally wasthe pattern and type for church-building throughoutthe kingdom. On the completion of the church,Edward determined to have it consecrated in themost solemn and impressive manner, and with thatintent summoned all the bishops and nobles in thekingdom to be witnesses of the ceremony, whichtook place on Holy Innocents Day (December 28),. \Vestminster Abbey.) DEATH OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. 397 1065. Edward, in order to ingratiate himself with last, in the Pala

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