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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 ...
Christ Church, Spitalfields St George's, Bloomsbury St Mary Woolnoth St George in the East ... Nicholas Hawksmoor (c. 1661 – 25 March 1736) was an English architect.
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
At the time Hawksmoor was a little known pupil of Sir Christopher Wren, and his Christ Church, Spitalfields had been left to rot. Publication of the book helped to rescue the church from destruction by initiating a restoration programme for the church, with parish worship returning in 1987. [1]
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After the Wren era, Hawksmoor was responsible for six of the great Anglican churches in the East End of London (for example Christ Church, Spitalfields), and other architects such as Hooke, James Gibbs and John James contributed significantly to Anglican church architecture in London.
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]