London And Its Environs : Handbook for Travellers

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London And Its Environs : Handbook for Travellers
Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Bride's, a church built by Wren in 1703, with a hand- some tower 223 ft. in height. In the central aisle is the grave of Richardson, the author of ^Clarissa Harlowe* (d. 1761), who liyed in Salisbury Square in the neighbourhood. The old church of St. Bride, destroyed in the Fire, was the burial-place of Sackville (1608), Lovelace (16B8), and the printer Wynkin de Worde. In a house in the adjacent churchyard Milton once lived for several years. Shoe Lane, nearly opposite the church, leads toHolb...om; while a little farther on, on the same side, are Bolt Courtj where Dr. John- son spent the last years of his life (1776-84), and where Gobbett afterwards toiled and fumed ; Wine Office Court j in which it still the famous old hostelry of the Cheshire Cheese, where Johnson (whose chair is shown here) and Goldsmith so often dined, and Boswell so often listened and took notes ; Oough Square, at the top of the Court (to the left), where Johnson laboured over his Dictionary and othei works (house marked by a tablet) ; and Crane Court, once the home of the Royal Society, its president being Sir Isaac Newton, and now the seat of the Scottish Corporation, whose ancient Hall , burnt down in 1877, is replaced by a modem erection of 1879-80.

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