There’s been no time for a research blog post over these past few months — so to disperse feelings of guilt and shame, I’d like to share a handful of images taken this time last year on a walking tour of the Hawksmoor Six. The architect Nicholas Hawksmoor designed these churches as part of a 1711 parliamentary act commissioning fifty be built in the Cities of London and Westminster (known also as the Queen Anne Churches only twelve of which were completed). Modern writers have played around with ascribing occult significance to the positioning of Nick’s buildings, beginning with Iain Sinclair in Lud Heat, published in 1975.
