Comments on: Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 03 May 2016 14:09:58 +0000

Beautifully illustrated post. Martin Randall Travel do a fascinating tour of the 6 Hawksmoor churches and a quick bonus visit to Thomas Archer’s St Paul’s Deptford with the architectural historian Gavin Stamp if anyone wants to visit them all and get even more information. https://www.martinrandall.com/hawksmoor

By: Dean Hll

Dean Hll — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 22:04:14 +0000

Crikey, Never heard or knew of this genius architect
that assisted Wren, only until recently – odd.
Can’t help but feel there is much more to this Architect
than meets the eye. I’ve certainly strong desire to visit his works maybe they’ll reveal and tell us more- umm? Think one would actually need a lucky eye though in this case. Dan Brown – help..

By: Gary Croft. Melb Australia

Gary Croft. Melb Australia — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 07:10:20 +0000

It is so good to see Hawksmoor being appreciated again after such long periods of neglect.

By: vps

vps — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:16:58 +0000

This post is amazing. I realy like it

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:44:51 +0000

There’s another church with a probable Hawksmoor tower: St Luke’s Old Street. English Heritage says the architect is disputed: the church is possibly John James but the tower with its highly unusual obelisk spire is by Hawksmoor. http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1195700

By: Peter Holford

Peter Holford — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:40:01 +0000

Beautiful churches, beautifully photographed (and I’m strictly secular!). I visited Christ Church, Spitalfields last year because it was the church where my Holford ancestors were being baptised and married in the 18th century. It was awe-inspiring: awe-inspiring in that a building of such quality was built for poor folk.

My friend’s daughter is now living in the same street as my ancestors of 240 years ago – a real coincidence as he and I live near Manchester. He came back after one visit and raved about the ‘magnificence’ of the church. And I hadn’t prompted him!

By: Luke Green

Luke Green — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:43:46 +0000

This finds direct parallels in the music of Maurice Greene-a composer who desired to enrich his music with a thorough grounding in the ‘Antients’ of Italy (by which he meant Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque), yet with a finger on the pulse of the latest in Italian Opera (first Handel and Bononcini, later Porpora and Hasse). He never would have been able to afford to set foot in Italy or anywhere on the Continent, but became fluent enough in Italian to set poetry by Rolli. He dragged British Music, kicking and screaming, into the eighteenth century. Furthermore, his Masonic connections allowed him a freedom to communicate with his Italian colleagues where he might not have otherwise enjoyed their collaboration, as an important office holder at court. Fascinating. We have to learn to love our heritage and Hawksmoor, Greene, Pope, Burlington etc’s achievements more.