The Memorials of Westminster
Subtitle: The City, Royal Palaces, Houses of Parliament, Whitehall, St. Peter's College, the Parish Churches, Worthies, Streets, Modern Buildings, and Ancient Institutions
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: November 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781421273532
Subjects: Memorials,Westminster,City,Royal,palaces,Parliament,Whitehall,St. Peter's,college,Parish Churches,Worthies,Streets,buildings,ancient,institutions,Walcott,Mackenzie,St. Paul's clock,Great Britain,Canterbury; Architecture / General; History / Europe / General
First sentence: TEN centuries ago, and Westminster - now ennobled with many a stirring memory of an eventful past, with royal parks and palaces, and the sessions of powerful parliaments,-and more by association with the names, that can never die, England venerates,-might we but recal it in some magic glass, would again appear a dangerous waste, extending round a small convent newly built upon its highest elevation, a sandy gravelly soil overrun with briars and thorns, at the eastern extremity of a low marshy tract frequently inundated by the swollen Thames.