We're a bunch of healthy outdoor geeks in London. Every so often a group of us like to go off for a nice long walk. We did one on Sunday to visit five of the London churches designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
Hawksmoor is a very interesting person. Some people see his churches as "centres of malevolent energies" and even suggest connections with the Jack the Ripper murders. The five churches that we visited are certainly amongst the most impressive religious buildings in London and whne you're looking up at them you can't help feel that there's something slightly strange about them.
If you'd like to see for yourself, I've put my photos of the walk online.
If you'd like to know more about the churches, thne I thoroughly recommend Peter Ackroyd's novel Hawksmoor. In fact, if you're at all interested in the weirder side of London history then any of Ackroyd's books are recommended.
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
Re:Saint Mary Woolnoth
davorg on 2002-04-24T22:17:47
Saint Mary Woolnoth [...] is mentioned in The Waste LandTHANK YOU! I was sure that it was mentioned in a poem I knew, but I couldn't remember which one. I was convinced it was Tennyson so I was looking for it there.
I'd never have thought of looking in Eliot.
As my wife is reading Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell comic book From Hell, (I plan to read it too), I made a google search on "hawksmoor churches london ripper" and guess what ?? it points me to your journal. No matter what I try to find on the web, I always seem to go back to Perl those days.
Re:Google links to you
davorg on 2002-09-03T16:02:54
And bizarrely enough, I've also just read From Hell (and seen the film). I wrote about it recently in my other blog.
