Midwinter Light at Christ Church
December 17, 2025
Each year in December, we get a couple of days of intense sunlight transforming Christ Church Spitalfields. At this time when the sun is at its lowest angle, the church becomes an intricate light box with powerful rays of light entering almost horizontally from the south and illuminating Nicholas Hawksmoor’s baroque architecture in startling ways. The crystalline sunlight of recent days provided the ideal conditions for such phenomena and inspired my to attempt to capture these fleeting effects of light.
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Many of these pctures are small masterpieces in their own right.
The images are more than beautiful , they are transporting
Beautiful photographs. Thank you for sharing them. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you. Thank you for all your fascinating posts this year.
I worked in the Crypt in the 1980s and went to the church when it was covered in scaffolding and dust sheets, wonderful to see the place as it was meant to be. May the Light of the World give you a radiant Christmas.
An amazing and beautiful looking building.
Hawksmoor illuminated by nature and art. Thank you for all the pleasure you give us.