Stiffleaf's photos
st.mary abchurch, london
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there is a wealth of good c17 woodwork including doorcases and pews in the church, with work by joiners gray and creecher and carving by emmett
st.mary abchurch, london
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there is a wealth of good c17 woodwork including doorcases and pews in the church, with work by joiners gray and creecher and carving by emmett
st.mary abchurch, london
st.mary abchurch, london
st.mary abchurch, london
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the font of 1686 was carved by kit kempster. it has a cover the screws up a spiral post fitted into the ceiling
st.mary abchurch, london
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this pretty figure seems by looks to date from the c20 rather than the c17, it is from the western doorcase which suffered in the war. no craftsman, however good, can ever really think and work like his predecessor, and it's even harder for an artist, who constantly wants to put himself into the work or improve it.
st.mary abchurch, london
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the organ case of 1717 came from all hallows bread st. , the tall pews are original c17 work
st.mary abchurch, london
st.mary abchurch, london
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this is the sword rest of samuel birch, who was lord mayor in 1814, but it bears the arms of george 3 of 1816, with the crown replacing the electoral bonnet. it also has the arms of the city livery company of the cooks. the c17 west gallery in the background was formerly used by the boys from merchant taylors' school
st.mary abchurch, london
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c19 sword rest of samuel birch, lord mayor in 1814, though the king's arms are post 1816.
st.mary abchurch, london
st.mary abchurch, london
st.mary abchurch, london
st.mary abchurch, london
st.mary abchurch, london
st.mary abchurch, london
st.mary abchurch, london
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tetragrammaton painted on wren's dome by william snow between 1704-14 [yes,I know it's upside down]
