St Alfege's church, Greenwich (C) Christopher Hilton

TQ3877 : St Alfege's church, Greenwich

taken 21 years ago, near to Isle of Dogs, Tower Hamlets, Great Britain

St Alfege's church, Greenwich

Designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor: one of the handful of imaginative churches this architect scattered across London in the early eighteenth century.
Occult fictions have been woven around Hawksmoor's churches, most notably by Iain Sinclair in his poem "Lud Heat" and the better-known novel "Hawksmoor" by Peter Ackroyd (see Link

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Grid Square: TQ3877, 1734 images (more nearby )
Photographer: Christopher Hilton (find more nearby)
Image classification^?: Geograph
Date Taken: Sunday, 16 June, 1996 (more nearby)
Submitted: Monday, 28 May, 2012
Geographical Context: Religious sites City, Town centre
Church (from Tags): Church of England
Architect (from Tags): Nicholas Hawksmoor
Subject Location: OSGB36: TQ 3830 7760 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:28.8274N 0:0.5870W
Camera Location: OSGB36: TQ 3832 7759
View Direction: West-northwest (about 292 degrees)