LONDON'S UGLIEST CHURCH
St. John's, "Westminster, with its four towers at the four corners, has been dubbed—not, perhaps, altogether, without reason—the ugliest church in London. Lord Chesterfield likened it to an elephant upturned on its back, an'd Dickens refers to it in "Our Mutual Friend" as resembling "a petrified monster, frightful and gigantic, with its four legs in the air." It was tho second of Queen Anne's 50 churches, and the story goes than when the architect submitted his design for the building Her Majesty disapproved so violently that, in an excess of rage, she kicked. over her footstool, ami, pointing to the upturned piece of furniture, cried disdainfully, "9'uiid your church like that.'' And the disgruntled architect took her at her word.
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Shannon News, 18 September 1928, Page 4
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123LONDON'S UGLIEST CHURCH Shannon News, 18 September 1928, Page 4
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