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66
ings of the Grey
beautiful church
ished. Many
towers and spires
tony of the red¬
If we
we see the new
houses.
yond the Fleet,
THE
GROWTH OF THE CITY
Friars and their
now nearly fin¬
other church
relieve the mono¬
tiled roofs of the
look
suburb rising be¬
westward
the row of houses
broken by the fine church of the
White Friars, and ending with
the house of the Knights
Templars. The bridge, when
we are well upon it, is like
a narrow street,
with intervals
here and there from which we
can look down CROSBY HALL FROM GREAT ST, HELEN'S on the surging
tide below. The heavy piers which supported the nineteen arches
a
a hi _ a 7 al
mY
a
a
tide the passage was
very dangerous to boats.
ke ez
Peter of Colechurch, the
architect, lies buried in
the small but beautiful
chapel of St. Thomas of
he
Canterbury, which
had built on and within
When
the northern
the central pier.
we reach
end and pass through
the principal Bridgegate