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Parentalia, or, memoirs of the family of the Wrens : Viz. of Mathew Bishop of Ely, Christopher Dean of Windsor, &c. but chiefly of Sir Christopher Wren ... in which is contained, besides his works, a great number of original papers and records on religion, politicks, anatomy, mathematicks, architecture, antiquities ... / comp. by his son Christopher; now published by his grandson Stephen Wren
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TIIE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON IN 1666.

COST OF NEW CHURCHES.

Some notion may be formed of the enormous loss occasioned by,e " Great Fire of London” by a glance at the outlay for rebuildingiclesiastical edifices only, the relative value of money between-thatnd the present period being taken into consideration. The wholef the following churches, as well as the Monument, were built byir Christopher Wren.

St. Paul's Cathedral .L7W,753 2

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5,041 S 93,384 7 28,058 15 68.165 Q 82,448 0 107,000 16 119,000 0 05,005 5 10*3,588 9 513,145 3 103,328 18 104,120 16 105,077 1 1

Christ-churcli . 11,430 5 11

Allhallows the GreatAUhallows, Bread-street ...Allhallows, Loinbard-atreet .

St. Alban, Wood-street.

St- Ami and Agnes.

St. Andrew Wardrobe

St Andrew, llolboru.

St. AnthoUu.

St. Austin.

St. Rennet Graceehurch-

St. Bonnet, Paul's Wharf ..

St. Bonnet Fink ..

St. Bartholomew.

St. Clement, East Cheap

St. Clement Banes * .

St. Dionis Backchurch —

St. Edmund the King.

St. Oeorge, Botolph-lane .St. James, Garlick-hill ...St. dames, Westminster *.

St. Lawrence Jewry..,.. 11,870 1

St. Michael Basinghall .

St. Michael Hoy al .

St. Michael, Queenhithe ...

St. Michael, Crooked-lane t •

St. Michael, Wood-street ...

St. Michael, Cornhill.

St. Martin, Ludgiite

2,822 17,455 74,354 34,541 S2,554 2 U5,878 1 8 82,301 8 2

St. Bride, Fleet-street. 11,430 5 10

4,365 S- 4$8.786 17 045,737 12 105,207 12 105,000 4 106,367 12 108,500 0 0919811

St. Matthew, Friday-street

St. Margaret Pattens.

St. Margaret, Lotlibury.

St. Mary Abcburch.

St. Mary Magdalen..

St. Mary Somerset .

St. Mary at Hill .

St. Mary, Aldermanbury.

St. Mary le Bow .

St. Mary Is Steeple ..

St. Magnus, London-bridge ..

St. Mildred, Bread-street.

St, Mildred, Poultry ..

St. Nicholas Cole Abbey —

St. Clave Jewry ...

St. Peter, Cornhill .

St. 8within, Caonon-street .

St, Stephen, Walbrook.

St. Stephen, Coleiuan-street..

St. Vedast, Foster-lane.

The Monument.

2,801 84,086 105,340 H4,022 24,291 126,670 183,980 125.S37 88,071 187,388 89.579 19 103,705 13 6L4,654 9 745,842 6 11

5,5805,6474,687 47,652 134,020 161,853 158.866 8

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4- St.Clement Danes and St. James, Westminster, although, erected Iy the " groat architect,” being distinct from th© City, mu*t sub- ftracted lrom the general expenditure.

t St. Michael, Crooked-lane, was pulled dowa to fi' , rm ap->toach to the new London-bridge.