Excerpt from Proposed Demolition of Nineteen City Churches, 1920, Vol. 8: Report by the Clerk of the Council and the Architct of the Council This drastic proposal came under the consideration of the Local Government, Records and Museums Committee of the Council, who instructed the clerk of the Council to report on the historical interest of the churches in question, and the way in which the money for their erection had been provided, and the architect of the Council to report on the architectural and antiquarian features of the buildings. The reports of the officers have now been amalgamated, for the purposes of publication, into one report dealing with (i.) the gradual diminution in the number of City churches (pp. 5 the historical and archi tectural interest attaching to each church (pp. 8 and (iii.) general observations (pp. 29 A number of photographs have been included, as well as a plan which shows the position of (a) the nineteen churches, (b) the churches which would remain if the proposals of the Commission were carried Out, (0) the churches which were rebuilt after the Great Fire of and have since been demolished, (d) the churches which were burnt down in the Great Fire and have not been rebuilt, (e) the old City wall, the present City boundary, and the area of the Great Fire. The clerk of the Council and the architect of the Council desire to record their appreciation of the work done in connection with the preparation of this report by Mr. W. W. Braines and Mr. C. J. T. Dadd of their respective departments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.