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ample of that rarest of styles, the Gothic of the Stuart period, the
brief revival extinguished by the Great Rebellion. We had a second
example in the Chapel of Lincoln's Inn, but it has been lately ruined
by the ruinator of St. Albans Abbey. I would like furthermore to
believe that in St. Albans, Wood Street, we have Inigo Jones’s Gothic,
restored —not in Lord Grimthorpe’s sense of the word—by Sir
Christopher Wren, of whose feeling for the old style we have other
examples in St. Mary Aldermary, the glorious tower of St. Michael,
and the too fantastic spire of St. Dunstan in the East. Of Wren’s
own style we have St. Paul's, in many respects the finest cathedral
in the world, and St.
Stephen's, Walbrook, till
lately the model and cri¬
terion of all Protestant
parochial churches.
There are beauties in all
Wren's city churches,
and the contrast is strong
between even the meanest
of them and such build¬
ings as St. Peter le Poor
or St. Katherine Cole¬
man. The Gothic revival
of our own time is well
illustrated by St. Dun¬
stan, Fleet Street, a
building which, if it had
been in stone, or even
red, instead of drab,
brick, might be almost
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