Tallis's Illustrated London, in Commemoration of the Great Exhibition of All Nations in 1851, Forming a Complete Guide to the British Metropolis and Its Environs Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ...the houses on the west side are in the parish of Lambeth, which extends in this direction to Norwood, passing by Tulse-hill, a beautiful eminence between Brixton and Norwood. In this direction we must pause awhile, and, before visiting Dulwich and Norwood, acquaint ourselves with that portion of Camberwell and Peckham at which we have not yet glanced. Returning to Camberwell-green, and pursuing the left-hand road that diverges from it, and which is called the Peckham-road, we enter Church-street, so named from the magnificent parish church of St. Giles. Some interesting associations are attached to the old church, which was destroyed by fire on the night of Sunday, the 7th of February, 1841. According to the Doomsday Book, there was a church at Camberwell previous to the year 1085, supposed to have been erected by the Saxon owners of the soil. In 1152 a new church was built at Camberwell, which, two years afterwards, was given by William De Melhent, Earl of Gloucester, to the Abbey of Bermondsey. In Bishop Edendon's register at Winchester is a commission, dated 1346, for reconciling this church, which had been polluted by bloodshed. "As the country was in a state of great disorganization," says Mr. Allport, " the king being in France, and the Scotch very troublesome at home, it is probable that a murder had been committed on some individual who had fled there for sanctuary." Mr. Lysons supposes the late church to have been built early in the reign of Henry VIII., giving, as a reason for this belief, the architecture of the windows, and of the arches which divided the nave from the aisles; but Mr. Allport thinks that the structure was raised( some half century earlier. This church, on the west side of the Peckham-road, was built of flint and r...