MISCELLANIES1850
IRON RAILINGS ROUND ST. PAUL'S
By P. C. S. S.
As the removal of the iron railing which surrounds St. Paul's Churchyard is now said to be in contemplation, P.C.S.S. imagines that it may not be unacceptable to the readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES," if he transcribes the following account of it from *Hasted's Kent*, vol. ii. p. 382, which is to be found in his description of the parish of Lamberhurst:— "It was called *Gloucester Furnace* in honour of the Duke of Gloucester, Queen Anne's son, who, in the year 1698, visited it from Tunbridge Wells. The *iron rails* round St. Paul's Churchyard, in London, were cast at this furnace. They compose th…
Topics: Iron Railings, Historical Architecture, Victorian Engineering
Locations: St. Paul's Churchyard, London, Tunbridge Wells, Lamberhurst