Stiffleaf's photos with the keyword: st.mary le bow

st.mary le bow, london

08 May 2010 80
steeple by wren 1678-80

st.mary le bow, london

08 May 2010 116
steeple by wren 1678-80

st.mary le bow, london

08 May 2010 111
open work pinnacles formed of volutes take wren's steeple from tower to drum. 1678-80

st.mary le bow, london

08 May 2010 123
west door of tower, by wren 1678-80

st.mary le bow, london

08 May 2010 121
entry under tower, built by wren in 1678-80

st.mary le bow, london

08 May 2010 105
west front of wren's church, 1670-80, tower 1678-80

st.mary le bow, london

08 May 2010 100
west door of tower, by wren 1678-80

st.mary le bow, london

08 May 2010 86
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

08 May 2010 89
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

08 May 2010 119
crypt, late c11. the oldest parochial interior in london, now a cafe under the wren church

dragon weathervane, st.mary le bow, london.

28 Apr 2010 118
made of copper in 1679 by r.bird from e.pearce's model

st.mary le bow, london, crypt

28 Apr 2010 92
this part of the late c11 crypt is now a chapel.

steeple of st.mary le bow, london.

28 Apr 2010 106
by wren 1678-80. the steeple cost nearly as much as the church.