St Martin-in-the-Fields Church | London
Neoclassical church at Trafalgar Square, famous for sheltering the homeless since WWI and free lunchtime concerts.
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This guide to St Martin-in-the-Fields Church in London opens on a winter night in 1914, when a newly arrived vicar named Dick Sheppard found the crypt locked and London's poorest sleeping outside in the cold. It follows the decision he made that night, and how the grand neoclassical church built by James Gibbs in 1726 became a wartime shelter for soldiers passing through on their way to the front. Stand in the crypt, now a café, to feel where hundreds once slept.
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