Saint Martin-in-the-Fields
Item
- Title
- Saint Martin-in-the-Fields
- Alternative Title
- St. Martin's in the fields, Trafalgar Square
- Creator
- James Gibbs (Scottish architect, 1682-1754)
- City
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Address
- Trafalgar Square
- GPS
- 51.381945
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Building Creation Date
- 1720-1726 (creation)
- Century
- 18th century
- Description
- 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.
- Techniques
- line drawings (drawings)
- Classification
- Architectural Documentation
- Documentation Type
- illustrations
- Style/Period
- Eighteenth century
- Neoclassical
- Palladian
- Cultural Context
- British
- Subject
- architecture
- cityscape
- pediment
- Source
- 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.
- Access Rights
- Public Domain
- creator
- Gibbs, James
- Item sets
- Architecture Illustrations
James Gibbs (Scottish architect, 1682-1754), “Saint Martin-in-the-Fields”, Texas Tech Arch Design Images -- Open Access Collections, accessed May 13, 2025, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/openarch/item/18561