Open London 21-22 Sept

What an amazing spire!  George I ,atop a Halicarnassus style plinth with
Unicorns and Lions struggling to maintain their grip.

1731: Nicholas Hawksmoor's south porch.  Reminiscent of his six
other churches in London. 



Hogath's famous Gin Lane records the foresight
of city planners, knowing that eventually
Bloomsbury would be theirs.
We met one protester claiming it back
with terrifying screams from the church steps.

And inside it is as marvellous.

A growing London expands across now familiar streets.

Our next church, something completely different.  A 60's barn, built to replace the
Victorian Gothic URC building shaken to bits during the blitz.

A shaft of light penetrates the roof, creating a division across the room.  Inside the shaft is a small chapel,
suitable also for a crèche.

A bit of thought and creativity has turned the dullest church in
 London into one very well worth visiting.

Hampstead Garden Suburb- The creation of Henrietta Barnett.  A utopic view of British society. 
Social divisions defined as a virtue with the two protestant church traditions, within sight of each
other, but kept safely 'apart'.

The 'Free' Church.  Lutchyns favoured church.

Inside, the floor slopes curiously down to the front, in a bowel shape

St Jude, a high church with fine, cold Romanesque interior,
with tasty snack lunches .

The lady chapel

Before church we slipped in 44, Willoughby Road,
 a new addition to the street Mum grew up on.

Mum's childhood church.

Home of some wonderfully eccentric indecisives.

Last location.  Rudolf Steiner centre.
Home of creative absurdity.

A wonderfully organic building where right angles are banned.

This is also the home of eurythmia;
dance that expresses sound.

Food from an old petrol station at King's cross.

The fountain at the King's Cross development.
My thoughts were of a North Korean marching pageant for Kim Il Sung.

Were now? How about a contemporary Arts'n'Crafts Synagogue
in Brockley?