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Picturesque London

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Adam, the Brothers, 39 Adelphi, The, 40 All-Hallows Staining Church, destroyed, 214 All-Hallows Barking, Church of, described, 216 All Saints’ Church, Margaret St., described, 240 Amen Court, St. Paul’s, sequestered enclosure of, 144 Anne’s, St., Church, Soho, and its Associations, 73 Austin Friars, House destroyed in, 167 Barn Elms at Putney, 275 Barnard’s Inn, 105 Barry, the Painter, his Adelphi Pictures, 48 Bartholomew’s, St., rudely treated, 221; “Blacksmiths’ Forge and Fringe Factory,” 222; judiciously restored, 224 Bell Tavern, The Old, 177 Berkeley Square, 172 Billett’s “Maids of Honour” cakes, 280 Blackheath, its “Paragons,” etc., 291 “Blew Coat” School, The, 19 Bow Steeple, 234 Brewers’ Hall, The, described, 208 Brick, Proper Treatment of, 258 Bride’s, St., Steeple, Story connected with, 233 Burlington House, described, 163 Campden Hill and its old Houses, 29 Canonbury Tower, 253 Carlyle, Thomas, Visit to, before his death, 269; his House, 269 Catholic Churches in London, 241 Changes in London by demolition, and rebuilding, 152 Chapels, The Embassy, 241 Charterhouse, The, 249 Chelsea, “Modern Antiques” at, 270 Chelsea, Old Church of, 270 Chelsea “Physick Garden,” The, 271 Chelsea, Sketch of, a few years ago, 266 Chenery, Mr., A tenant in Clement’s Inn, 100 Cheshire Cheese Tavern, The, Account of, 190 Chesterfield House, 161 Chiswick Church and Old Houses, 277 Christ’s Hospital, Public supping at, 250 City, Charm of exploring, 195 City Companies, Vast number of, 209 Clapham, Church Row, 219 Clement Danes, St., Romantic View of, 234 Clement’s Inn, its Garden House, 100 Clifford’s Inn, described, 99 Clock Tower, The, 25 Cock Tavern, The Fleet Street, Account of, 185 College Street, Westminster, picturesque, 18 Covent Garden and St. Paul’s Church, 52 Cripplegate Church, 202, 212 Crosby Hall, fine Oriel Window in, 229 Cornelys’ Rooms, Mrs., now a Chapel, 241 Cremorne Gardens, Sketch of, 269 Cromwell House, 146 Dane’s Inn, 101 Devonshire House, 161 “Dickens in London,” Various associations, 115; His Wooden Midshipman, 116; His sketches of the Inns of Court, 117; His residences in London, 118 Dining Halls in the Old Inns of Court, 107 Doorways, Old, Various specimens of, described, 260; Old Carved, in Carey Street, 100 Drapers’ Hall, 210 Dublin, Old Houses in, 216 Dyers’ Hall, 209 Edmonton, Fine specimens of Brick at, 288 Eltham, 287 Ely Chapel, District round, 217; The Old Bell, 217; Palace of the Bishop, 217; Sold to Government, 218; Precarious condition of the Chapel, 219 Emanuel Hospital, Westminster, 20 Essex Head Tavern, 194 Fairfax House, Putney, 148 Farm Street Chapel, 248 Fitzroy Square, 175 Forster, John, Scene at his house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 93 “Fox-under-the-Hill” Tavern and Dickens, 47 Fulham, “Bishop’s Walk,” at 274; Old Houses and Church, 272 Furnival’s Inn, Holborn, 104 Garrick’s House in Southampton Street, Strand, 51 George Street, Hanover Square, 172 George’s, St., Cathedral, Southwark, 242 George Tavern, Boro’, 180 Golden Square, 170 Gough Square, Johnson’s House in, 193 Gray’s Inn, 112 Greenwich, described, 286 Hampton Court, described, 285 Hammersmith Mall, 275 Hampstead and Highgate, Charms of, 288 Hanover Square, described, 159 Hans Place, Antique tone of, 258 Helen’s, St., Church, 230 Highgate, Walk to, 290 Hogarth House, described, 278 Howe’s House, Mr., at Isleworth, 283 Hyde Park, described, 78 Inns, Old, “The Flask,” 289; “Jack Straw’s Castle,” 290; “The Spaniards,” associated with “Pickwick”, 290 Isleworth, 283 Islington, Old-fashioned air of, 255 “Jack Straw’s Castle”, 181 James’s, St., Palace, Gateway, and Dial, 80 Kensington House, 155; and Palace, 297 Kew Palace, 278 King’s Head Tavern, Boro’, 178 Kingston Market Place and Inns, 283 Lamb, C., his house in Colebrooke Row, described, 257 Laurence Pountney Hill, a Picturesque Enclosure, 204 Law Courts, The, criticised, 130 Leadenhall Street, Old House in, described, 157 Leicester Square, Statue in, 136 Leven’s, Lord, House, at Roehampton, 291 Lincoln’s Inn, Old Gateway, 98 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Old Taverns near, 96; Fine Houses in, 92 London Relics, Fate of, 132 Magnus’, St., Tower, Poetical effect of, 132 Mansions, Old, in London, 154 Marble Arch, The, 297 Martin’s St., Lane, 70 Mary Woolnoth, St., 237 Masque of Flowers in Gray’s Inn, 113 Mitre Tavern, The, 192 Monuments in Westminster Abbey described, 28 Morden College, Blackheath, 291 Mortimer Street, Richly decorated Houses in, 157 National Gallery, The, its Pictures and Painters criticised, 57 Nightingale Monument in Westminster Abbey, 31 New River, The, 256; its pleasingly erratic course, 257 Newton’s House, Leicester Square, 163 Olave’s, St., Hart Street, 212 Oratory, The, described, 245 Painter Stainers’ Hall, 209 Palace, St. James’s, described, 296; Buckingham Palace and Gardens, 295 Pantheon, The, 171 Paradise Row, 271 Parliament, Houses of, described, 20 Paul Pindar’s, Sir, House, 159 Peacock Room, The, (note) 302 Photographing London Relics, Society for, 166 Post Office, General, View from, 233 “Private Prayer,” Result of opening a Church for, (note) 237 Pugin, the Architect, 242 Putney Bridge, Old, 272 Paul’s, St., Cathedral, 134; Dome of, 137; Monuments in described, 141; Railings round, 143; Reredos, 139 Quadrant, The, Regent Street, 90 Queen Square, 170 Raleigh House, Brixton, 150 Regent Street, Its merits, 89 Richmond, Its Green, and Maid of Honour Row, and Old Palace, 281 Richmond Playhouse, 282 River at Charing Cross, 127 Rolls Chapel, Beautiful Tomb in, 226 Roman Bath, and Roman Remains, 49 Rooks in London, 112 Roubiliac, The Sculptor, and his Work, 30 Sadler’s Wells Theatre, 256 Saviour’s, St., Southwark, 226 Savoy Chapel, 215 Scarsdale House, Kensington, 168 Severn, M., on “Sketching in London”, 127 Soane Collection in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 94 Soho Square, 171; Chapel near, 241 Somerset House, 126 Square, St. James’s, 174 Squares, Old London, 170 Staple Inn described, 102 Steeples, Eccentric, 238 Steevens, Alfred, Sad Story of, 139; Specimen of his art in the railings of British Museum, 265 Stephen’s, St., Walbrook, 234 Sterne, Ghastly Story connected with, 75 Street Names, Origin of, 55 Studios, Some—Herkomer’s, 302; Sir F. Leighton’s, 300; Sir John Millais’s, 302 Sundial, Negro, in Clement’s Inn, 101 Tablets on Celebrated Houses, 165 Teddington, 284 Temple, Inns in the, described, 109 The “Antients” in the old Inns of Court, 103 Theodore of Corsica, his story, 73 Tottenham, 288 Tradescants, House of, 166 Trumpeter House, Richmond, 282 Tyrrel Monument, 34 Vanbrugh, the architect, and his work, 68 Vauxhall, Figure-heads at, 270 Wade, Marshal, Grotesque Monument to, 45 Wandsworth Manor House, 145 “Warwick Arms,” The Old, 175 Waterloo Bridge, Praise of, by a French critic, 123; and the Embankment, 122; The Toll-keeper and Dickens, 125 Wellington Monument, St. Paul’s, History of, 139 Westminster Abbey described, 26 Westminster Hall, 23 White Hart Tavern, Boro’, 178 Whittington’s House, 199 Willis’s Rooms and its associations, 293 Woffington’s Almshouses at Teddington, 284 Wren, Sir C., his Churches, 232; Steeples, 233 York House and Gate, 46

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