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433:, in his analysis of contracting firms working in London, places them in the top seven largest firms in the 1860s, on the basis of the number of contracts they won. These included a printing works for the Printing and Publishing Company in Smithfield and the Merchant's Seaman's Orphanage, which became
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Botolph, Quarrington. The tower was built about 1325 and apart from the replacement of four pinnacles in 1887 restoration has been minimal. The Perpendicular styled font dates from the late 14th-century; however its cover is dated 1856. The raised quinquangular apse with its unusual style was
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Exchange 1859. Sleaford Corn Exchange occupied the 19 Market Place. It was built by Kirk & Parry in 1857 and comprised the main exchange building at ground floor level, an extensive basement butter market and other ancillary accommodation. It was demolished in
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Victorian masonry and medieval stone fragments, which presumably had been gathered by Charles Kirk during his church restoration. It has been listed as
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