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THE CHURCHES 195
whole, I do not think
there was any church
here till just before
the Conquest, that the
priory came next, then
the hospital, and finally
St. Sepulchre’s, a dedi¬
cation of comparatively
late character. The
tower and porch of St.
Sepulchre’s are ancient,
zaj but thoroughly re¬
poceins" Commins, NGAN-GENERAL's onsice stored of late years,
and their historical significance in great part obliterated. Of St.
Bartholomew the Less nothing
remains, though it was spared
by the Great Fire. The pre¬
sent church, or hospital chapel,
is in a hopelessly mean style
of Gothic, as we might expect
from its date, 1823. Inigo
Jones, the great architect, was
baptized in the old church.
Still outside the city walls,
though within the civic bound¬
aries, there is another church
which escaped the Great Fire,
namely, St. Giles’s. The ori¬
ginal fabric was built by a man
named Alfune, who was, we are