London Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...you looking just as well as ever? Hardly a day older. No really …’ The Wren church of St Clement Danes (rebuilt after bombing in the Second World War) still has an oranges‐and‐lemons ceremony, and the bells chime the air of the nursery rhyme. John Lyly was married here in 1583 and Nathaniel Lee ( d. 1692 ) and Thomas Otway ( d. 1685 ) were buried here. Dr Johnson worshipped in the old church and a statue of him, with low reliefs of Boswell and Mrs Thrale on the base, stands outside. The largest of the maypoles set up at every street corner after the...
