Interior of Allhallows-the-Great (engraving)

Interior of Allhallows-the-Great. Drawn from the gallery at the west end, shortly before its demolition. This church was built by Sir Christopher Wren. The tower and North aisle were taken down in 1876. As the latter was not open to the church, but was screened by panelled and glazed partitions, the effect of the interior was not much injured by its removal. The screen had not been given by the Hanse merchants as is generally supposed, but was subscribed for by the united parishes of Allhallows-the-Great and the -Less. It is now, together with the pulpit, in St Margaret's Lothbury. Illustration for Modern History of the City of London by Charles Welch, with illustrations drawn and selected by Philip Norman (1842-1931) (Blades East and Blades, 1896).