Stiffleaf's photos
st.andrew undershaft, london
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1636 tomb of hugh hammersley with soldiers at the sides and above. about 10 ft tall and nicely carved. attrib.to thomas madden
mansion house, london
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built 1739-53 by dance the elder, here in one side bay design [ which originally stood up one storey higher ] the palladian building goes a little baroque. the two bays which stood out as sort of towers were known as the mayor's nest and noah's ark. note the little blue police telephone box, pretty rare nowadays.
st.mary aldermary, london
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tower completed by wren's office in 1702-4, probably to the designs of william dickinson
st.mary aldermary, london
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church wren 1667-82, tower to design for tower at king's college, cambridge, built here 1530, then 1625-9, then finished by dickinson1702-4
st.mary aldermary, london
st.mary aldermary, london
st.mary aldermary, london
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east end,in t perpendicular gothick by wren 1667-82, made more correct in 1876 by innes, who built the buttresses and parapet
st.mary aldermary, london
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west end, rebuilt in correct perpendicular by wren 1667-82, the c16 tower probably being re-topped by dickinson in 1702-4
st.mary le bow, london
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crypt, late c11. the oldest parochial interior in london, now a cafe under the wren church
st.mary le bow, london
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crypt, late c11. once the site of the court of arches, the supreme court of the province of canterbury and thus a place where heretics were condemned and judgement passed on all who offended the church, now a cafe.
st.mary le bow, london
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crypt, late c11, a place with a dark past probably unknown to those eating lunch here now; it was for centuries the seat of the court of arches where all offenders against church truth had sentence passed on them, often ending at the stake.
st.mary le bow, london
st.mary le bow, london
st.mary le bow, london
st.mary le bow, london
st.mary le bow, london
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open work pinnacles formed of volutes take wren's steeple from tower to drum. 1678-80
st.mary le bow, london
