By 1801, the population of the whole of Shoreditch (of which Hoxton was a part) had grown to 34,766, doubled to 68,564 by 1831 and in 1861 was 129,364. As the population grew the parish of Shoreditch was divided...
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Dec 8th, 2010
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St John the Baptist, Hoxton
Dec 8th, 2010
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St Saviour’s, Hampstead
In the mid-19th Century, London was spreading from the central areas to the north-west, and the Chalcot Estate, part of the endowment bestowed on Eton College by King Henry VI, was undergoing development. Local...
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Dec 8th, 2010
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St George’s, Bloomsbury
St George's Bloomsbury is the sixth and final London church designed by the leading architect of the English Baroque, Nicholas Hawksmoor. It was one of the "Fifty New Churches" for London proposed by Queen Anne's...
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Dec 8th, 2010
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St Peter’s Church, Petersham
There seems to have been a church on this site since Saxon times as the 1086 Domesday Survey entry for Petersham suggests that the church there then had been restored. In 1266 a Norman church was built, of which...
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Nov 25th, 2010
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The Royal Mausoleum
Queen Victoria's love for her husband Prince Albert is well known and when he died on 14th December 1861, of typhoid, she was devastated. Within four days she had ordered the Frogmore Mausoleum to be built at her...
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Nov 22nd, 2010
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The London Oratory
Brompton Oratory (more properly The London Oratory) is one of my favourite London churches. I have done much here over the years and Papers and Paints has produced specially-mixed paint for the redecoration. The...
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Nov 22nd, 2010
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St Michael and All Angels, Thornton
A church is believed to have existed on this site in 1219. The core of the existing church of St Michael and All Angels dates from the first half of the fourteenth century. The medieval church consisted of the...
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Nov 22nd, 2010
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St Yeghiche’s Armenian Church
I was asked to provide advice on colour and technical matters when this church was refurbished for the Armenian community. It is located in Cranley Gardens, Kensington, London and was originally built as St....
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Nov 22nd, 2010
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St Paul’s Cathedral
St Paul's Cathedral was built in the 17th century and designed by Sir Christopher Wren. While working on the Tijou Screen at Hampton Court Palace I was asked to carry out a paint analysis of the wrought-iron gates...
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Nov 16th, 2010
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Christ Church, Spitalfields
Nicholas Hawksmoor’s famous baroque church had fallen into terrible disrepair and came within a whisker of demolition. The Friends of Christ Church was formed in 1976, but it was 20 years before a Lottery grant...
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