Word: augustinian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Saviour's Church, which is situated in Wellington street, on the south, or Surrey, side of the English capital, is the oldest of the London churches. When it was built in the thirteenth century by Gifford, bishop of Winchester, it formed a part of the Augustinian Priory of St. Mary Overy, But in 1540 it was converted by Henry VIII into a parish church, and it has retained that character ever since. Reputed heretics were tried in the Lady Chapel in 1555, during the reign of "bloody" Queen Mary. In 1840 the old nave was taken down and an incongruous...
SUBJECTS IN HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE.1. The Augustinian and Calvinistic Ideal of the Church...