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St Mary-at-Lambeth

St Mary sits next to Lambeth Palace (the palace chimney stacks rise in the central background; the four towers rising in the lower left background are a bit of a mystery - they're not quite the right perspective for Westminster, although that might not have bothered the engraver). Dating from late Saxon times, the church was rebuilt in stone in the late fourteenth century. Its churchyard boasts the graves of John Tradescant and his son (gardeners to the Cecils and to Charles I) as well Captain Bligh of the Bounty mutiny infamy. Now St Mary is the Museum for Garden History (appropriate given both the Tradescant and Bligh graves) and well worth a visit.

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