Comments on: The Secrets Of Christ Church https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/11/the-secrets-of-christ-church/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 12 May 2019 15:45:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Valerie Gonzalez https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/11/the-secrets-of-christ-church/#comment-1286540 Sun, 12 May 2019 15:45:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174265#comment-1286540 Thankyou for this (as usual) beautiful piece. I wonder when the crypt was emptied, where the inhabitants were finally reinterred as possibly there were some fairly prominent members of the Huguenot community amongst them?

]]> By: Stephen Baisden https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/11/the-secrets-of-christ-church/#comment-1286394 Sat, 11 May 2019 21:06:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174265#comment-1286394 Cheers from Florida,
Most impressive and beautifully written. It makes my day.

Stephen Baisden

]]> By: Susan Martin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/11/the-secrets-of-christ-church/#comment-1286379 Sat, 11 May 2019 19:03:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174265#comment-1286379 I went to Christ Church last bank holiday monday with one of my daughters. Totally inspired by you. Went to the Brick Lane book shop too and wandered Fournier Street etc. Lovely day. Thank you for all your wonderful writing. Maybe we could hear more of Schodinger the cat?

]]> By: Michelle https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/11/the-secrets-of-christ-church/#comment-1286358 Sat, 11 May 2019 16:49:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174265#comment-1286358 A wonderful evocative journey that took me back to this favorite spot. Lovely. But into all the nooks and crannies I never knew.

My favorite thing about this church: the maritme fossils in wall and floor in the abundant Dorset stone.

]]> By: Kerrywood https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/11/the-secrets-of-christ-church/#comment-1286357 Sat, 11 May 2019 16:45:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174265#comment-1286357 So beautifully written, GA, thank you.

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/11/the-secrets-of-christ-church/#comment-1286297 Sat, 11 May 2019 11:18:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174265#comment-1286297 Greetings from Boston,

GA, what a beautifully written description of the inner spaces of Hawkmoor’s magnificent Christ Church which so dominates your home turf. So prominent in the photographs and paintings of your neighborhood that you have shared on this blog.

After the verger finally unlocked the door to the tower you wrote, “I listened to the dignified tick coming from the other side of the door. When he opened the door, I discovered it was the sound of the lonely clock that has measured out time in Spitalfields since 1836 from the square room with an octagonal roof beneath the pinnacle of the spire.”

Well said, with great pics too!

]]> By: Richard Armiger https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/05/11/the-secrets-of-christ-church/#comment-1286245 Sat, 11 May 2019 07:04:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=174265#comment-1286245 Another nice piece on a favourite church, and a nice sister piece to GA’s Christmas 2013 story.

I’d be interested to know more about the rectory model… I have a vague memory being called to restore it sometime in the late 1980s.

Rick Armiger

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