Secrets Of St Anne’s, Limehouse

Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours The exhibition The Original Chinatown in Limehouse, Myths & Realities is at St Anne’s Limehouse, Three Colt St, E14 8HH, each Thursday to Saturday 10-4pm until July, admission free. To me, St Anne’s Limehouse has always been the most mysterious of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s churches. So it was the fulfilment of a long-held ambition when I was granted the opportunity to visit the hidden spaces – from the secret chambers high up inside the tower, graven with eighteenth century graffiti, all the way down to the depths of the crypt which harbours the relics of a World War II Air Raid shelter. . Chamber in the tower with a wall of eighteenth century graffiti Staircase winding ever upward The workings of the clock with the names of clock-winders chalked on the door Ladder up to into the tower Door into the roof Inside the roof View from the rear roof towards the tower In the gallery In the gallery In the gallery Plasterwork above the gallery Stairs…