St Margaret's, Lee of the restoration, the church is one of the best preserved examples of a decorated gothic revivalist interior in London. Between 1813-1830 there had been an attempt to rebuild the medieval church, involving the architect Joseph Gwilt. This failed when it became clear that the foundations of the old church were incapable of supporting a new building. The ruins of the original building are in the medieval churchyard on the north side of Lee Terrace. The tomb of Edmond Halley (1656–1742), from 1720 England's second Astronomer Royal and the discoverer of the periodicity of Halley's Comet is in the churchyard,
Book of the Heavenly Cow sheds light on a question that plagued the minds of Egyptologists for years the origins of the world (which the section of the heavenly cow deals with). Anthony Spaling in 2000 published his translations of the "Book of the Heavenly Cow" that heavily went into detail regarding The Book of the Heavenly Cow as a myth text as well as the time period it originated in. Book of the Heavenly Cow The Book of the Heavenly Cow, or the "Book of the Cow of Heaven", is an Ancient Egyptian text thought to have originated during the Amarna Period and, in