Oldal 217 [217]
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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 dedication of comparatively late character. The tower and porch of St. Sepulchre’s are ancient, zaj but thoroughly repoceins" 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 present 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 boundaries, there is another church which escaped the Great Fire, namely, St. Giles’s. The original fabric was built by a man named Alfune, who was, we are
