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I90 THE CHURCHES tion first to the old churches which escaped the Great Fire, and then to a few typical examples of Wrens noble designs. It is interesting DOORWAY, ST, HELEN'S CHURCH DOOR IN ST, HELEN’S CHURCH to find that among the surviving churches one of the oldest may be recognised in St. Bartholomew the Great, in Smithfield. Smithfield is the smooth field, or open space, outside the walls which the citizens resorted to for open-air assemblies and other such purposes when the houses / round Westcheap and the ~ ! encroachments of the — MONUMENT TO SIR JULIUS CAESAR, ST, HELEN'S CHURCH
