London City Walk : St. Mary at Hill

Posted by AG (London, United Kingdom) on 1 July 2009 in Architecture.

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I spent some time last week wandering around the old part of the City of London and have a few random images to post from that walk.

This modest little church building is a puzzling surprise to enter. The body of the church is empty save for a few sticks of furniture, a temporary altar and a piano. Somehow, this emptiness reveals more than is usually the case the volume and dimensions within.

The church structure survived the Fire of London in 1666 and the worst of the WW2 bombing but succumbed to a simple fire in 1988. since then, it has been under slow repair and refurbishment while still fulfilling a spiritual and social need.

(image from 3 exposures combined in-camera)

- AG

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