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Today's Wordle Answer for #1264 on Wednesday, December 4, 2024. Today's Wordle answer on Wednesday, December 4, 2024, is CRYPT. How'd you do? Next: Catch up on other Wordle answers from this week.
Plate XLIII from Samuel Pepys's hand-coloured copy of Francis Willughby's 1678 Ornithology [1]. Early scientific works on birds, such as those of Conrad Gessner, Ulisse Aldrovandi and Pierre Belon, relied for much of their content on the authority of the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle and the teachings of the church, [2] [3] and included much extraneous material relating to the species ...
The work was funded by a local benefactor as part of the memorial to the poet Robert Southey, who is buried in the churchyard. In addition to Scott's internal alterations, the church was re-roofed and re-seated. [5] The altar designed by Scott was moved to St John's in the Vale church in 1893. [6]
The word lych survived into modern English from the Old English or Saxon word for "corpse", mostly as an adjective in particular phrases or names, such as lych bell, the hand-bell rung before a corpse; lych way, the path along which a corpse was carried to burial (this in some districts was supposed to establish a right-of-way); lych owl, the screech owl, because its cry was a portent of death ...
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The churchyard was used for burials from the late 1680s until the mid-20th century. The most celebrated burials at the kirkyard are the economist Adam Smith and the poet Robert Fergusson , but many other notable people were interred in the cemetery.
St Botolph's churchyard [18] was combined with those of St Leonard, Foster Lane, and Christchurch, Newgate Street, into Postman's Park in 1880, [19] and this now contains the Watts Memorial to Historic Self-Sacrifice, commemorating civilian Londoners who died heroic deaths. The church was designated a Grade I listed building on 4 January 1950. [13]
In 1606 the king granted an acre ( 4,046.86 mts2) of ground to the west of St Martin's Lane for a new churchyard, [5] and the building was enlarged eastwards over the old burial ground, increasing the length of the church by about half. [6] At the same time, the church was, in the phrase of the time, thoroughly "repaired and beautified". [6]