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		<title>Model of old London Bridge</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Navigate around the virtual model in&#160;either Orbit Mode or&#160;First Person Mode. Orbit Mode (default): rotate around a fixed camera point. Double-clicking anywhere on the model sets the camera pivot point to that spot. First Person: walk through space and look around. Use ↑,←,↓,→ (or W,A,S,D) for zoom in, move left, zoom out, and move right.&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Crypt and parish monument at Brookwood Cemetery</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[John Stow&#8217;s A Survey of London&#160;(first edition 1598; revised edition 1603) recorded the memorials in the church, but none of these survived the Great Fire of London. The walls and floor of the church contain many memorials dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. Several vaults were built under the church, including one built in&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Robert Preston’s tombstone</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Cooper]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 17:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Robert Preston was buried at St Michael Crooked Lane on 21 March 1730. His memorial was preserved when that church was demolished in 1831. The inscription reads: Here lieth the Body of Robert PrestonLate Drawer at the Boar’s head Tavern in Great Eastcheap;Who departed this life March the 16 Anno Dom. 1730Aged 27 Years Bacchus&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fire engine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 17:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The&#160;Great Fire of London&#160;in September 1666 gutted the mediaeval City of London, destroying 13,200 houses, St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral and 87 parish churches. St Magnus stood less than 300 yards from the bakehouse of Thomas Farriner in Pudding Lane where the fire started and was, after St Margaret New Fish Street, the second church to be&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Narthex</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Cooper]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 17:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[St Magnus the Martyr stands close to the&#160;Monument to the Great Fire of London of 1666. The Old Swan by the river, mentioned by Pepys, was a little &#8216;above bridge&#8217; and in 1715 became the starting point for the Doggett&#8217;s Coat and Badge Race, the oldest rowing race in the world. As the current of&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Bells</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Cooper]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 17:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prior to the Great Fire of London of 1666&#160;the old tower had a ring of five bells, a small sanctus bell and a clock bell. Following the completion of the new tower, a ring of eight bells was cast by Richard Phelps of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Between 1714 and 1718 the ring was increased&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Benefaction boards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 17:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Behind the font is one of the church&#8217;s three benefaction boards, which is considered one of the finest in the City and records gifts made between 1640 and 1700. The main panel is flanked by festoons descending from cherub-heads, with a cornice and broken segmental pediment above. In the centre of the latter there is&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Statue of St Magnus of Orkney</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Cooper]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 17:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The statue of the church&#8217;s patron was designed by Martin Travers in 1928. It shows St Magnus in a commanding pose dressed as a Roman legionary with, incongruously, a helmet with curving horns and axe. This covers his hair but he has a neat dark beard and moustache.&#160; Over his armour, which is black and&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Font</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Cooper]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 17:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The font was moved from the east to the west end of the south aisle in 1924. Previously it was between the santuary and south door (now blocked). It is of white marble with an octagonal bowl, given in 1683 by three parishioners: Captain William Richardson, Henry Freeman and Thomas Passenger. The upper part of&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Churchwardens&#8217; pews</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Cooper]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2021 17:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most of the old box pews were replaced with the current pews as part of the restoration of the church in 1924. However, two of the original 17th century&#160;box pews, used by the churchwardens, can be seen at the west end of the nave, either side of the door between the nave and the narthex.&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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