Christ Church Spitalfields is an Anglican church built between 1714 and 1729 to a design by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
The grand portico of Christ Church Spitalfields is one of the church’s most imposing and architecturally significant features. Four great Tuscan columns forming the portico which unusually have winder spacing in the centre than the sides to support the broken portico.
Indeed Hawksmoor made the whole composition vertical with the tower appearing to be supported directly off the portico.
Interesting facts...
A little bit of Venice in Spitalfields. The portico’s arched opening between two rectangular ones creates a Venetian window motif (also called a Palladian motif), which Hawksmoor repeated on the tower itself
Architectural Illustration: Christ Church Spitalfields, London. Approach
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