The church of St. Mary-le-Bow is on the fine street of Cheapside in the City of London, where the church was rebuilt by Christopher Wren in 1666 after the “Great Fire of 1666. According to De Saussure (78), the church is the finest in London and has the best ringing of the bells, according to a tradition, a person with a cocky British accent called a Cockney had to be born by listening to the bells of St. Mary-le-Bow instead of the other churches in London (De Saussure, 78).
The Church of St. Mary-le-Bow before the fire of 1666, the bells were used to create a curfew in the City of London and seated the Anglican Court of Arches, because of this court the arches that was built in 1666 were called bows. The church also was used to mark a distance between London and Lewes, and the church has ties to the financial institutions by holding services for companies. (St Mary-le-bow, nd.)
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De Saussure, C. (1902). A Foreign View of England in the Reigns of George I. & George II: The Letters of Monsieur Cesar De Saussure to his family. London: John Murray.
The outside of the church of St. Mary-le-Bow.