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Putney - The Churches that Giants Built
In his 'Provincial Glossary with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions' of 1787 (1811 edn) Francis Grose records the legend that St Mary the Virgin church in Putney, southwest London - see photo above - and All Saints church in Fulham (on the opposite side of the River Thames) were built by a pair of giantess sisters.
The sisters had only one hammer between them, which they would throw to each other in response to a pre-arranged call: '…those on the Surrey side made use of the word, put it nigh! Those on the opposite shore, heave it full home! whence the churches, and from them the villages, were called Putnigh and Fullhome, since corrupted to Putney and Fulham.'
[For more on this and other strange stories from across the London Borough of Wandsworth, see my ‘Haunted Wandsworth’.]
Putney - The Churches that Giants Built
In his 'Provincial Glossary with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions' of 1787 (1811 edn) Francis Grose records the legend that St Mary the Virgin church in Putney, southwest London - see photo above - and All Saints church in Fulham (on the opposite side of the River Thames) were built by a pair of giantess sisters.
The sisters had only one hammer between them, which they would throw to each other in response to a pre-arranged call: '…those on the Surrey side made use of the word, put it nigh! Those on the opposite shore, heave it full home! whence the churches, and from them the villages, were called Putnigh and Fullhome, since corrupted to Putney and Fulham.'
[For more on this and other strange stories from across the London Borough of Wandsworth, see my ‘Haunted Wandsworth’.]