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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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ST. JOHNS, WESTMINSTER. very hideous church, with four towers at the four corners, generally resemblingsome petrified monster, frightful and gigantic, on its back with its legs in theair.—Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. The effect at a distance is miserable, but the details of the church areadmirable in reality, and if only two towers are seen, the result is verygood. Churchill, the poet, was curate and lecturer here (1758), 298 Walks in London and how utterly unsuited lie was for the office we learn from his own lines : I kept those sheep,Which, for my curse, I was ordaind to keep,Ordaind, alas ! to keep through need, not choice. . . .Whilst, sacred dulness ever in my view,Sleep, at my bidding, crept from pew to pew. A tablet records the fact that George III. and Queen Charlotte stoodsponsors here in person in 1800 to Lord Thomas Grosvenor, afterwardsEarl of Wilton. The old pews were unfortunately removed c. 1SS5.
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IN QUEEN ANNES GATE. At 2$ Parish Street, Tooley Street, is the last remaining public-housewith the old sign of the Naked Boy and Woolpack. Horseferry Road, near this, leads to Lambeth Bridge, erected in 1862on the site of the horse-ferry, where Mary of Modena crossed the riverin her flight from Whitehall (Dec. 9, 1688), her passage being ren-dered very difficult and dangerous by the violence of the wind and theheavy and incessant rain. At the same spot James II. crossed twodays after in a little boat with a single pair of oars, and dropped theGreat Seal of England into the river on his passage. The large open Queen Annes Gate 299 space called Vincent Square is used as a playground by the West-minster scholars. In Rochester Row, on the north of the square, isSt. Stephens Church, built by Miss Burdett Coutts in 1847, and oppo-site this Emery HilVs Almshouses of 1708. At the end of RochesterRow towards Victoria Street is the Grey Coat School, a quaint buildingof 1698, with two statues i

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