Saint Martin-in-the-Fields

St. Martin's in the fields, Trafalgar Square

James Gibbs (Scottish architect, 1682-1754)

London, England, United Kingdom

Trafalgar Square

51.381945

United Kingdom

1720-1726 (creation)

18th century

exterior perpective, exterior perspectives

Gibbs held a post as surveyor to the Fifty New Churches Commission in London. St. Martin-in-the-Fields is an Anglican church at the northeast corner of Trafalgar Square. The church is essentially rectangular, with a great Neoclassical pediment supported by a row of huge Corinthian columns. The high steeple is topped with a gilt crown. Gibbs was certainly inspired by Sir Christopher Wren as the interior is very similar to St. James's in Piccadilly. The church has a close relationship with the Royal Family, whose parish church it is, as well as with 10 Downing Street and the Admiralty.

line drawings (drawings)

Architectural Documentation

churches

religious buildings

illustrations

Eighteenth century

Neoclassical

Palladian

British

architecture

cityscape

pediment

Bishop, Henry Halsall. Pictorial Architecture of the British Isles. Third edition, revised and enlarged. New York: E. and J.B. Young and Co, 1885, 83.

Public Domain

Gibbs, James