{"id":966,"date":"2014-07-22T18:34:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=966"},"modified":"2018-03-26T16:07:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:07:05","slug":"st-botolph-without-bishopsgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/22\/st-botolph-without-bishopsgate\/","title":{"rendered":"St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was interviewed today by the Spitalfields Life<\/a> website about the photographs of Billingsgate Market<\/a> which I published recently. While I was going to the meeting I stopped to take some photos around St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate church. The most unusual feature is a Turkish Baths, just outside the church courtyard, dating back to 1895. It looks very out of place surrounded as it is by modern high-rise office blocks, although today it’s run as Turkish restaurant.<\/p>\n

Between the Turkish Baths and the church is a classical red-brick building that was once the Hall of the Worshipful Company of Fan Makers, then a school and now the church hall. In the niches on the front of the building are figures of charity children, a boy and a girl, sculpted in Coade stone<\/a>. These sculptures are copies of the originals which reside within.<\/p>\n

Inside the church is a lovely plaque commemorating those who fell in the First World War.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t