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Identifier: walksinlondon02hare (find matches)
Title: Walks in London
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834-1903
Subjects: London (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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voted labours of its sometime vicar, A. H. Mackonochie. The pecu-
liarly bad character once attached to Baldwins Gardens and Fulwood's
Rents may be owing to the fact that these were amongst the places—
cities of refuge insulated in the midst of London—which, by royal
charter, once gave sanctuary to criminals and debtors.
Now, passing the handsome brick and terra-cotta buildings of the
Prudential Insurance Offices (by Waterhouse, 1879), on the left was
Furnival's Inn (destroyed 1898), where Dickens began to write his
'Pickwick Papers', and where he represented John Westlock as having
his chambers.

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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 for
the desolate fellows they pretend to be, it is quite surprising how they get on.'
On the right is Barnard's Inn (see vol. i. p. 87). At No. 123, on
the left, stood, till 1898, the Old Bell Inn, an old hostelrie with one
of the most picturesque courtyards in England, surrounded by tiers
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THE OLD BELL INN.

of balconied galleries hung with brilliant flowers in summer. On its
front were carved the arms of the Fowlers of Islington, once lords of
the manor of Barnsbury. In 1637 the inn is mentioned by John
Taylor, the Water-Poet. It is described by Black in the 'Strange
Adventures of a Phaeton.' It belonged to Christ's Hospital, which
allowed it to be pulled down and the site sold for building. Just at
the opening of the Holborn Viaduct—which annihilated the Heavy

St. Andrews Church 157

Hill, and was constructed in 1866-69, to the great convenience of
traffic, and destruction of the picturesque — is (right) St. Andrews
Church, which escaped the Fire, but was nevertheless mostly re-
built by Wren in 1686. The lower part of the tower and the west
window survive from the old church. Internally it is a bad likeness
of St. James's, Piccadilly, with encircling galleries, a waggon-headed
ceiling, and in the east window some good stained glass of 1718, by
Price of York. The royal arms of the House of Stuart are in the

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