Comments on: The Secrets Of St Anne’s Limehouse https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/09/the-secrets-of-st-annes-limehouse/ 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, 10 Sep 2023 21:31:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Geraldine https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/09/the-secrets-of-st-annes-limehouse/#comment-1521183 Sun, 10 Sep 2023 21:31:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196829#comment-1521183 Thank you for your evocative photos which compelled me to visit the Limehouse event today. Having an historical interest in the area, inspired by discovering ancestral connections, it meant a lot to me to be able finally to go inside St Annes. I even took the tour up to the Bell Tower and rang a bell. That’s a first for me! I’m sorry that I didn’t get to meet the Gentle Author but I did have a very interesting chat about the history of the area with one of the stall holders. I will be back!

]]> By: Rob Cherry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/09/the-secrets-of-st-annes-limehouse/#comment-1521113 Sun, 10 Sep 2023 06:55:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196829#comment-1521113 Lovely photos, the clock at St Anne’s was our living room clock for 20 years, as our windows on Gill Street gave us a wonderful view. Now living in Haarlem in the Netherlands with another church clock tower keeping us connected with chimes throughout the day.

]]> By: Catherine https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/09/the-secrets-of-st-annes-limehouse/#comment-1521096 Sun, 10 Sep 2023 02:30:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196829#comment-1521096 What great photos! I’ve only seen the outside but hope to visit the interior one day. The anchor-shaped clock hands are a wonderful reminder of St. Anne’s proximity to the water. Thank you for posting these images.

]]> By: Sonia Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/09/the-secrets-of-st-annes-limehouse/#comment-1521038 Sat, 09 Sep 2023 14:07:44 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196829#comment-1521038 What beautiful plaster ceiling moldings, GA! The bucket window openings to bring in air and keep out rain are an architectural feature I’d never seen before. Thank you!

]]> By: Paul https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/09/the-secrets-of-st-annes-limehouse/#comment-1521037 Sat, 09 Sep 2023 14:02:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196829#comment-1521037 Great photographs.

Here’s an off-piste art link that the photo’s made me rememberf – Michael Simpson’s paintings of ladders and leper squints, confessionals and benches.

http://www.michael-simpson.co.uk/LSquintPages/Leper-Squint16.html

]]> By: Robin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/09/the-secrets-of-st-annes-limehouse/#comment-1521033 Sat, 09 Sep 2023 13:37:48 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196829#comment-1521033 What utterly gorgeous photos. They evoke the sense of mystery you describe, GA. A sense of architecture in the service of connecting us mere humans to something timeless and sublime.

]]> By: Richard Armiger https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/09/the-secrets-of-st-annes-limehouse/#comment-1521017 Sat, 09 Sep 2023 11:13:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196829#comment-1521017 Just wonderful.

Your talents are so very welcome, cherished, there’s so many from you but this is a fave.

They remind us of the happy house, when our london crew at arch 10 was a place of greatness.

As for the madhouse at the other number 10…

]]> By: Bob Gladding https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/09/the-secrets-of-st-annes-limehouse/#comment-1521006 Sat, 09 Sep 2023 09:33:32 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196829#comment-1521006 Thanks GA, always wanted to see the interior with the font where my grandmother was baptised in 1867. Her father was a Vestryman (Churchwarden) there in the 1870’s.

]]> By: Val Bott https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/09/the-secrets-of-st-annes-limehouse/#comment-1520998 Sat, 09 Sep 2023 07:29:49 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196829#comment-1520998 What wonderful atmospheric photos!

]]> By: Ellen Savage https://spitalfieldslife.com/2023/09/09/the-secrets-of-st-annes-limehouse/#comment-1520989 Sat, 09 Sep 2023 05:18:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=196829#comment-1520989 The photo taken inside the roof is beautiful, and I’m assuming that there has been impressive restoration up there. Thank you for these photos. The stunning engineering and design, and the building’s rich history need to be known in this jaded time.

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