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A Timeline of Hawksmoor's life; Google map showing where Hawksmoor's London churches are; Christ Church Spitalfields "Archival material relating to Nicholas Hawksmoor". UK National Archives. Portraits of Nicholas Hawksmoor at the National Portrait Gallery, London; Images relating to Nicholas Hawksmoor at the Country Life Picture Library
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 ...
The church was rebuilt by the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches. Work began in 1716 [7] and the new church was reopened for worship on Easter Day 1727. It was commissioned from Nicholas Hawksmoor, [8] who had responded with one of his most distinctive and original designs. He benefited greatly from having an unusually open area in ...
The church is one of six Hawksmoor churches in London, England. It was built from 1714 to 1729, with funding from the 1711 Act of Parliament.Its name has been used for two forms of parish (areas of land) surrounding, one ecclesiastical which remains and one a Civil counterpart, a third tier of local government.
St Alfege Church is an Anglican church in the centre of Greenwich, part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich in London. It is of medieval origin and was rebuilt in 1712–1714 to the designs of Nicholas Hawksmoor .
The building was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, as one of twelve churches built to serve the needs of the rapidly expanding population of London in the 18th century. The scheme never approached its ambitious target of 50 churches, but those built were also known as the Queen Anne Churches. The building was completed in 1727 and consecrated in ...
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
Engraving of St John Horsleydown by John Buckler. St John Horsleydown was the Anglican parish church of Horsleydown in Bermondsey, South London.Built for the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches to the designs of Nicholas Hawksmoor and John James in 1726–1733, it was noted for its distinctive spire in the form of a tapering column.