Comments on: In The Crypt Of Christ Church, Spitalfields https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/12/in-the-crypt-of-christ-church-spitalfields/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:31:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Georgina Briody https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/12/in-the-crypt-of-christ-church-spitalfields/#comment-1094183 Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:31:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121804#comment-1094183 Tonight I visited the crypt for the first time and thought about my Huguenot ancestor who laid there for over two hundred years and now residing elsewhere and the wonder I felt at seeing it in its new use. The refurbishment is just wonderful.

]]> By: The Friends of Christ Church Spitalfields https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/12/in-the-crypt-of-christ-church-spitalfields/#comment-562730 Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:57:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121804#comment-562730 Thank you for the interesting article and excellent pictures. For more information about the crypt and the restoration, visit the Friends’s website http://www.christchurchspitalfields.org

]]> By: Nigel Crump https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/12/in-the-crypt-of-christ-church-spitalfields/#comment-560802 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 18:33:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121804#comment-560802 I tried to get into the Crypt without walls exhibition too, you know the one known for hospitality and learning. But I was not on the list so couldn’t go in!!

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/12/in-the-crypt-of-christ-church-spitalfields/#comment-560460 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 14:44:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121804#comment-560460 Oops – mixed up my churches! The Holfords were buried in Christ Church crypt! Still it is good to see. Any chance of doing St Leonard’s?

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/12/in-the-crypt-of-christ-church-spitalfields/#comment-560452 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 14:41:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121804#comment-560452 On a personal level this is an interesting item. My gg-uncle, Jesse Pound, wrote his autobiography in about 1850 and tells of his brother, Giles Murley Pound. “Giles became a very respectable merchant tailor in Kingsland Road, London, where he died a widower about the year 1826, leaving three children and was buried under Shoreditch Church.”

It’s good to see what “under Shoreditch Church” looks like!

]]> By: Pauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/12/in-the-crypt-of-christ-church-spitalfields/#comment-560426 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 14:24:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121804#comment-560426 I agree with the first comment, a great read, this is a wonderful space and it is good to know that there are plans to put it to good use. Well done to all those responsible for this.

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/12/in-the-crypt-of-christ-church-spitalfields/#comment-559850 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 06:37:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121804#comment-559850 Fascinating photos. I know my Mother used the shelter there sometimes during the war, she was living on Hanbury Street cat the time. Valerie

]]> By: Average_chap https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/12/in-the-crypt-of-christ-church-spitalfields/#comment-559771 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 05:48:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121804#comment-559771 Great read. It will be interesting to see what becomes of it and whether it will be at all accessible to the people that used to need it given none of them can afford to live there anymore. The story of the guy sleeping in the coffin is awesome.

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