Saint Martin-in-the-Fields
church, London, United Kingdom
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design by Gibbs
- In James Gibbs
His best-known work, St. Martin-in-the-Fields (designed 1720), with its lofty steeple and classical temple front, clearly demonstrates the intermingling of influences. Though criticized in its time—the French admired the portico and despised the steeple—St. Martin’s became the archetype of countless British and American churches. Gibbs’s other best-known buildings…
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