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Christ Church Spitalfields is an Anglican church built between 1714 and 1729 to a design by Nicholas Hawksmoor.On Commercial Street in the East End and in today's Central London it is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, on its western border facing the City of London, it was one of the first of the so-called "Commissioners' Churches" built for the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches ...
Nicholas Hawksmoor (c. 1661 – 25 March 1736) was an English architect. He was a leading figure of the English Baroque style of architecture in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries.
The name Spitalfields appears in the form Spittellond in 1399; as The spitel Fyeld on the "Woodcut" map of London of c.1561; and as Spyttlefeildes, also in 1561. [3] The land belonged to St Mary Spital, a priory or hospital (a lodging for travellers run by a religious order) erected on the east side of the Bishopsgate thoroughfare in 1197, from which its name is thought to derive ("spital ...
Fournier Street also has the church of Christ Church Spitalfields at its western extremity, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, a former assistant of Christopher Wren, and built between 1714 and 1729. This Grade 1 listed building is widely considered to be the highest expression of English Baroque architecture. [ 12 ]
Most of the churches were designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, with John James, Thomas Archer and James Gibbs also participating. Christ Church, Spitalfields, Hawksmoor 1714–29; St Alfege Church, Greenwich, Hawksmoor 1712–18 (rebuilding of an existing church) St Anne's Limehouse, Hawksmoor 1714–30; St George's, Bloomsbury, Hawksmoor 1716–31
Christ Church, Spitalfields was built from 1714 to 1729, to a design by Nicholas Hawksmoor. The churchyard was closed to burials in 1856. It was converted to a public garden by the MPGA in 1892, laid out to a design by Wilkinson. However, it was largely built over by the church school, and only a small portion of the garden remains. [46]
The name of the pub has changed over time, but those names have generally derived from the number of bells in the "peal" housed in the Nicholas Hawksmoor-designed Christ Church, Spitalfields next door. In 1755 it was known as the "Eight Bells Alehouse". [1]
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is the local education authority for state schools within the borough. [73] In January 2008, there were 19,890 primary-school pupils and 15,262 secondary-school pupils attending state schools there. [74] Private-school pupils account for 2.4 per cent of schoolchildren in the borough. [75]