The church of St Mary Woolnoth where William Wiberforce heard Rev John Newton preach against slavery. Newton had been a slave trader and turned to God after surviving a shipwreck. He wrote the words of Amazing Grace. #History #citychurches #London #CityofLondon .
Wren's influences. The spires of St Carolus Borromeo, Antwerp, built 1614-1624 (left) and St Magnus the Martyr, City of London, built 1703-1706 (right).
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Our pop-up display #FireintheCity now open across 5 #CityChurches ! Sir Christopher Wren restored St Mary-le-Bow Church after the Great Fire of 1666 & it was destroyed again in #WW2 . #DidYouKnow the 'Great Bell of Bow' features in the nursery rhyme Oranges & Lemons? Wren300SquareMile #Wren300
#EASTER is upon us & brings back fond memories of my previous #photobook 'Faith in the City of London' - photographing the #CityChurches & religious occasions great & small.
Photograph: PAGAN ROOTS Great St Bartholomew - evocative of rites from which faith originates.
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Harris' stunning anthem, Bring Us, O Lord God. It features in our concert at St Bartholomew-the-Great in London on 13 June.
🎟️tinyurl.com/4wexvbjs
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#englishchoralmusic
Off shortly to do a #wren300walk for The Friends of St Paul’s Cathedral - visiting some of the gorgeous #Citychurches
(And hoping the rain will hold off 😃) St Paul's Cathedral
#19thcentury #London #CityChurches by A E Daniell, 1896 #Illustrated #Antique #TourGuide #Antique Book #oldchurches #historicchurches #londonchurches --->>> ebay.com/itm/1960322257… #eBay via eBay
#FireintheCity is now live! Don't miss this new and free pop-up exhibition across 5 Square Mile Churches running until 8th December - surl.li/ladrj
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Come on a walking tour with Harry Mount details can be found on our website theoldie.co.uk
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Today I led my first tour as part of the CoL Guides 🇺🇦 team offering private group tours of St Stephen Walbrook (@StStephenEC4N), one of the finest Wren churches in The City of London. What a pleasure it was! More on the tours at this link:
ststephenwalbrook.net/tours/
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I ambushed (truly) the occupants of the parish office with the question - how to keep Lent - here’s what they said… St Giles Cripplegate London Diocese The Church of England #AshWednesday #Lent #London #CityChurches #AllAreWelcomeHere
A worried Robert Dow leans on a skull on his 1612 memorial at St Botolph Aldgate, London. An added inscription says it was repaired by the Company of Marchant Taylors in 1675, perhaps vandalism during the Civil War or Commonwealth?
More: simonknott.co.uk/citychurches/0…
#MemorialsMonday
The map maker John Speed, 1629 at St Giles Cripplegate, London. He seems a jolly sort, although apparently his likeness was based on his death mask. There was an Easter Egg in each of his skull's eye sockets when I took this.
More: simonknott.co.uk/citychurches/0…
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The altar at St Stephen Walbrook by Henry Moore, born #OTD 1898. Part of Peter Palumbo's restoration, and controversial at the time for the way it disrupts the music-in-stone of Wren's exquisitely correct mathematical proportions. 1/2
St Stephen Walbrook: simonknott.co.uk/citychurches/0…
