Comments on: Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/19/nicholas-hawksmoors-churches-i/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 21 Jul 2023 07:21:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Richard Cleaver https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/19/nicholas-hawksmoors-churches-i/#comment-1515865 Fri, 21 Jul 2023 07:21:33 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196401#comment-1515865 The symmetry….oh, the symmetry.

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/19/nicholas-hawksmoors-churches-i/#comment-1515787 Thu, 20 Jul 2023 11:16:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196401#comment-1515787 In response to Mark, I do not think Spitalfields Life is the right platform to be making statements about the perceived failings of government and society. Somewhere like The Guardian would be a more suitable place for that type of comment.

Britain is still a very charitable place which offers things like food bank access for free. I live in a city in Switzerland where food banks and drift in centres and shelters for homeless are heavily subsidised, but users must pay a very small contribution to access them. This is in order to allow users to maintain their dignity as they are still giving to society albeit in a very small way, but it is a system that works.

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/19/nicholas-hawksmoors-churches-i/#comment-1515707 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:39:52 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196401#comment-1515707 In response to Mark, that is not far-fetched. When I visited London in January 2019 one aisle of St James, Piccadilly was devoted to the homeless who were sleeping there as we tourists looked at the main part of the church. There were some basic rules such as not eating in the church but what I saw was Christianity as it should be. St Leonard’s Shoreditch however was locked with notices in English and Polish saying that belongings would be removed. A different approach!

]]> By: Juliet O'Neill https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/19/nicholas-hawksmoors-churches-i/#comment-1515699 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:11:34 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196401#comment-1515699 We used to live just outside Towcester in Northants. In 1702 Hawksmoor designed the baroque Easton Neston house there for Sir William Fermor; the only country house for which he was the sole architect.
More recently it was owned by the Hesketh family but was sold off in 2005.

]]> By: Hels https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/19/nicholas-hawksmoors-churches-i/#comment-1515671 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 11:20:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196401#comment-1515671 I can see you say that Hawkemoor was constructing new churches without any limitation of pre-existing structures or the meddling hands of other architects. And he created his own English interpretation of Gothic-Classical architecture.So he was a bit of a rebel, in his own era. Did he ever clarify which of his six churches he was happiest about?

]]> By: Mark https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/19/nicholas-hawksmoors-churches-i/#comment-1515661 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:49:27 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196401#comment-1515661 These places should be repurposed to house asylum seekers,refugees, the homeless et al. Add a food bank and embarrass the **** out of the tories.

]]> By: Mark King https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/19/nicholas-hawksmoors-churches-i/#comment-1515655 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 07:08:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196401#comment-1515655 Thank you for another interesting article. One might add to the list Hawksmoor’s contribution to one of the country’s most familiar church faces, the West Towers of Westminster Abbey
https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/nicholas-hawksmoor

]]> By: Karen Rennie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/19/nicholas-hawksmoors-churches-i/#comment-1515654 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 07:03:26 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196401#comment-1515654 ]]> the very best lion & unicorn crawling down the spire of St George’s Bloomsbury ❤️

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