Lamb, Charing Cross, St Martins in Fields WC2
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Hartshorn lane, Charing Cross in 1746 -
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At the " Lamb," Charing Cross, the sign of Mr. J. Beighton, / linen-draper, was to be sold a drawing of one of Wren's masterpieces — it could hardly have been the exterior — of St. Stephen's Church, Walbrook. Subscriptions were taken in at the " Lamb," and by the proprietor, G. Marshall, at Mr. Vardy's, near Kensington Palace.
Possibly the drawing was of the interior, which Cunningham describes as "all elegance and even grandeur. Never was so sweet a kernel in so rough a shell — so rich a jewel in so poor a setting.
The cupola is a little St. Paul's, and the lights are admirably disposed throughout ... the oval openings are somewhat ungraceful." Sir Christopher Wren is said to have lived in a house close by in Walbrook, subsequently No. 5, There was a " Lamb's Ordinary " at Charing Cross.
See Collection of Signs in St Martin's Library, Charing Cross, No. 2,790.