The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832

TO A SNOWDROP

OUR LADY'S CHAPEL, SOUTHWARK

SCOTTISH ECONOMY

SHAVINGS v. COAL AND PEAT

LINES

ON MY FORTY-NINTH BIRTHDAY

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

PHILOSOPHY OF LONDON

THE SKETCH-BOOK

SCOTTISH SPORTING

THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS

THE GEORGIAN ERA

Fine Arts

PATRICK NASMYTH

PORTRAIT OF CHRIST

Notes of a Reader

DEATH OF JOHN HAMPDEN

SNATCHES FROM EUGENE ARAM

SKETCHES FROM THE TOUR OF A GERMAN PRINCE, VOL. III

The Gatherer

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By the way we referred to the Altar Screen, of which we now find the following memorandum in a History of St. Saviour's Church, published in 1795:4

In the same work occur the particulars of the repairs of the Lady Chapel in 1624:

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A correspondent, E.E. inquires how it happens that the Chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, shown in all old plans of the Church, has likewise disappeared within the present century? This Chapel adjoined the South transept, and was removed during the repairs, under the able superintendence of Mr. Gwilt. It was thus described by Mr. Nightingale in 1818:

From what we remember of the character of this Chapel, the lovers of architecture have little to lament in its removal. Our Correspondent, E.E., adds—"This, and not the Lady Chapel, it was, (No. 456 of The Mirror,) that contained the gravestone of one Bishop Wickham, who, however, was not the famous builder of Windsor Castle, in the time of Edward III., but died in 1595, the same year in which he was translated from the see of Lincoln to that of Winchester. His gravestone, now lying exposed in the churchyard, marks the south-east corner of the site of the aforesaid Magdalen Chapel."

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