https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/20/at-st-botolph-without-aldgate-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 Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:34:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/20/at-st-botolph-without-aldgate-i/#comment-1650646 Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:34:59 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201496#comment-1650646 An atheist is nothing if not broad-minded! No-one, to my knowledge, has any inhibitions about entering a church building. Believing in religion is another question altogether.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/20/at-st-botolph-without-aldgate-i/#comment-1650554 Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:12:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201496#comment-1650554 What a wonderful find! And well done to the owner of the photos who graduated from your blog writing course. I’m still hoping to still get to one of them myself in due course, before it’s too late!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/11/20/at-st-botolph-without-aldgate-i/#comment-1650536 Wed, 20 Nov 2024 08:53:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201496#comment-1650536 That is a fantastic view of St Botolph Without Aldgate viewed from the Minories, so pleasing the aspect of an uninterrupted view remains extending down from the T-junction.
The architecture shines through inside with those magnificent original galleries and Tuscan columns.
So often I’ve found sheer joy at discovering such amazing architecture inside churches regardless the denomination. My advice to anyone who might well be put off entering any of them being atheist or of another denomination is to push past that self-imposed boundary, enter and discover by chance such wonderous architectural gems one never knew existed there inside regardless any thoughts of ‘look at the cost of it all’ ‘the waste’ or whatever. At times one simply gets lost in the beauty of it all.

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