Andrew Saint is the general editor of The Survey of London and the author of Richard Norman Shaw.
“St Mary’s rightly figures on the cover of a marvellous new
book. Or rather, two books, for these are volumes 49 and 50 of the
monumental Survey of London, which began 113 years ago with the
Parish of Bromley by Bow. To have reached Volume 50 is astonishing.
The editors, Andrew Saint and Colin Thom, should be made dukes, at
the least.”—Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph,
*The Daily Telegraph*
“It is, perhaps, no coincidence that this magnificent achievement
is not the work of an inchoate, overpaid bureaucracy (it would have
expired years ago if it were), but of a clever, small, scholarly
team of never more than six researcher-writers and a couple of
draughtsmen, now under the inspired editorship of Andrew Saint.
Long may they flourish!”—John Martin Robinson, Country Life
*Country Life*
‘The survey is an institution unique in the urban world. Nothing
like it has ever been attempted elsewhere and perhaps could never
be. It is both testimony to and commemoration of London’s patchwork
complexity where the distinctive character of small neighbourhoods
has defined in large part the living history of the city. . .These
are beautiful books, a fit setting for the scholarship that has
gone into them.’—Jerry White, Times Literary Supplement
*Times Literary Supplement*
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