Comments on: Spires Of City Churches

By: James J Clarke

James J Clarke — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 21:24:24 +0000

An inspirational exploration of what is to most non Londoners(and many Londenets possibly) a hidden part of the City of London. I’m already planning to leave my couch and garden once we are again free to roam and heading off to visit these marvellous churches. Maybe spend a couple of days in the capital

By: SJ Kurtz

SJ Kurtz — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 20:39:38 +0000

These are lovely, but I have come to the comments with a question someone here will know the answer to.
Or should that be anfwer?

On the first plaque, the first ‘s’ is old style. What is that style called?
All the others are ‘regular’ s. Why the shift?

One of you smarties knows the answers. Thanks.

By: Nicholas Sack

Nicholas Sack — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 20:08:24 +0000

Tremendous photographs, GA, full of grace and power. I admire your choice of dark monochrome, ideal for rainy pavements, the weighty bulk of buildings, and shadowy passers-by. Wonderful work that would appeal to Bill Brandt, too.

By: Linda Granfield

Linda Granfield — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 15:41:56 +0000

Absolutely wonderful photographs today.

Especially the first–composition A+–and the ‘puddle mirror’. (I agree with Stephanie P.–a terrific book cover image.)
Thank you for making your overcast London day shimmer with light and dazzle with history.

By: aubrey jacobus

aubrey jacobus — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 15:39:16 +0000

Who needs Venice ?

By: bronwen

bronwen — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 15:38:40 +0000

Bernie, that gorgeous structure is the St Lawrence Fountain: https://www.stlawrencefountain.co.uk/

By: Helen Breen

Helen Breen — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 14:01:37 +0000

Greetings from Boston,

GA, thank you for that great pictorial review of so many church spires in London. They still retain their charms against the glass/steel towers that now surround them.

I once stepped into St. Martin Ludgate on my way to Saint Paul’s. If I remember, it contained quaint bread shelves for the poor, and a few other touches that I can’t recall. But I was impressed. And then to step out and be almost in the shadow of St. Paul’s – such a contrast. Yet each has its place in London.

By: paul loften

paul loften — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 13:36:58 +0000

I once worked in Bread Street from 69-73 at the at the site of John Milton’s birthplace . This is my favourite part of the City. It has an air of spring and happiness. I recall sitting on a crowded green grass patch on a sunny day, near our building at lunchtime, eating my sandwiches with a lovely shorthand typist that the agency sent along . Its not only about business in the City.

By: Bernie

Bernie — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:21:48 +0000

A doubtless stupid question: at the right-hand side of the image of St Augustine’s, Watling Street stands what looks like a small version of the Albert Memorial. Perhaps I am being deceived by the shared gothic elements, but am I right to see common features? Is that structure a tombstone?

By: Valerie

Valerie — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 10:13:31 +0000

A really lovely set of reminder images to look up – to stop
& look up and see a past that is still present. How many (any?) still have a congregation? Thanks for winkling out these beauties from their obscuring & less salubrious bully-building settings.