John Stow
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John Stow was an English historian and antiquarian. He wrote a series of chronicles of English history, published from 1565 onwards under such titles as The Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles, The Chroni
Monument with effigy of John Stow, Church of St Andrew Undershaft, City of London, with arms of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors and Latin inscription: "Either do things worth writing or write things worth reading"
The church of St Andrew Undershaft, London, where Stow is buried
Stow's Survay of London, 1618 edition
An 18th-century engraving of Stow's monument
St Andrew Undershaft
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St Andrew Undershaft is a Church of England church in the City of London, the historic nucleus and modern financial centre of London. It is located on St Mary Axe, within the Aldgate ward, and is a ra
John Stow
…the soundness of his Protestantism. A second attempt to incriminate him was made in 1570 also without success. In about 1570 he moved to the parish of St Andrew Undershaft in the Ward of Lime Street, where he lived in comfortable surroundings until his death in 1605. Stow was in close contact with many of the leading…
St Andrew Undershaft in 2001
1841 illustration of the Undershaft maypole
The organ in St Andrew Undershaft