ROOD LANE, EASTCHEAP, EC3M 1HS
Open House Website says:
Take a guided tour of a beautiful example of a Wren church with unique features.
Despite which you could also just drop in for a look around. I hadn’t planned to but since I was passing the door on the way to another venue I dropped in anyway.
It’s a big airy, light-filled Wren church of the sort built in the city after the Great Fire. Two small vestries in the corner with wood panelling, one much older than the other. A collection of parish boundary markers high on the vestry wall. The vicar was happy to chat with visitors. Post-war glass in the windows thanks to the attentions of the Luftwaffe. A discussion as to whether the windows were previously stained glass but no one was sure. A glass case with examples of pattens - wooden or metal platforms fixed under your soles to keep your shoes/dress hem out of the horse shit in the streets of old London - since this is the church of the Pattenmakers’ Company.
I was glad the I decided to pop in.
There are more photos in my Open House 2024 Flickr Album
Intermission
INTERMISSION / GOFF COURTNEY, 29 ROYAL EXCHANGE, THREADNEEDLE STREET
Open House website says:
Architectural showspace on the first floor of a duplex unit in the City’s Royal Exchange (the ground floor houses clothing boutique, GOFF COURTNEY, which also sells accessories, visual books & magazines. INTERMISSION is exhibiting three-dimensional artworks by architect Misha Stefan and RE:PLACE – proposing alternative, more inclusive destinations for three prominent gateway sites in the City.
This is where I was going when I dropped into the church above. Up a narrow staircase above the boutique on the north side of the Royal Exchange was a small, and I mean small, gallery with some wall-hung mixed media 3d artworks and some architectural models for proposed redevelopments of sites in the city - bizarrely also hung vertically on the walls. There was a little information about the latter, mostly architect-bolx, while the only labels on the former were the er, aspirational price tickets. It would have probably been much better had the artist(s) been present to explain what the works were about. Time taken <10 minutes. Photos taken = 0
I could have skipped this one and not felt I’d missed anything important.
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