Welcome to our book review site www.go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
A History of Saint James Clerkenwell
This is the story of Saint James Clerkenwell from its beginning in the twelfth century as the church of the nunnery of St Mary. It tells how it survived the dissolution of the monasteries as the church of the parish of Clerkenwell, and was rebuilt at the end of the eighteenth century in its present Georgian form. It is also the history of the parish and how Clerkenwell changed from a country parish into a fashionable suburb and then into an industrialized, densely populated inner-city area.You will be introduced to some of its more celebrated parishioners, from Mad Madge the Duchess of Newcastle to Thomas Britton the musical coal man. In the nineteenth century Clerkenwell Green was the epice...
Survey of London
None
