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The Church of St Mary-le-Bow (/ b oʊ /) is a Church of England parish church in the City of London, England. Located on Cheapside , one of the city's oldest thoroughfares, the church was founded in 1080, by Lanfranc , Archbishop of Canterbury . [ 1 ]
At various times the court has sat in the church of St Mary-le-Bow (Sancta Maria de arcubus, formerly the archbishop's principal peculiar in London), whose arches give the court its name. The court used to sit in a large room over the north aisle of the 11th-century crypt adjoining Bow Lane.
The Lady Chapel is on the site of two earlier chapels: the c.1250 then Lady Chapel and the c.15 Chapel of St. Mary le Bow. These were taken over by the governors of the newly founded 'Edward VI Grammar School' (now known as Sherborne School) in 1550 and were partially demolished and converted into a dwelling for the headmaster in 1560.
Cheapside in 1823, looking west towards St Paul's Cathedral A view of Cheapside published in 1837 Photochrom of Cheapside, c. 1890–1900. Cheapside is the former site of one of the principal produce markets in London, cheap broadly meaning "market" in medieval English.
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It detailed the history of the City of Durham from medieval times to the present day. The museum was located in the redundant church of St Mary-le-Bow, close to the World Heritage Site of Durham Cathedral and Durham Castle, [1] which is bounded on the north and east by Hatfield College; on the south by Bow Lane, and the west by North Bailey.
[citation needed] In 1905, based on what was known about the six-bell version, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford composed a new melody (still called Whittington chimes [3]) that uses 11 out of the 12 bells in the tower of St Mary-le-Bow; [1]: 5 this 11-bell version is the one now used at that church.
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