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sa THE CHURCHES Ly 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 criterion 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 buildings as St. Peter le Poor or St. Katherine Coleman. The Gothic revival of our own time is well illustrated by St. Dunstan, Fleet Street, a building which, if it had been in stone, or even red, instead of drab, brick, might be almost LINCOLN § INN CHAPEL = sz azzá UE e szi mai i ag —— a —
