St. Martin in the Fields is a beautiful church.\u00a0 It is open, airy, has beautiful guilding, and some of the most interesting windows that I have ever seen in a religious building.\u00a0 While not actually in a field (as there was some debate about it), it still is in a nice, albeit touristey, location.\u00a0 The inside of church has every appearance of being a nice, though rather upscale, protestant church, much like the ones built all around New England during the 18th century, which is why I found the contrast to the outside so dramatic.<\/p>\n
English churches, especially the more well-known\u00a0ones, tend to be made of stone and feature either gothic or roman architecture, and the inside usually matches the exterior.\u00a0 However, when sitting inside St. Martin’s I felt that when I exited the building I would see a\u00a0wooden, white-washed structure with a steeple, basically a copy of many of the protestant churches that litter New England.\u00a0 It was almost jarring for me to enter what was outwardly a copy of a Roman Temple (with the addition of a steeple and clock) and instead see a bright room filled with windows.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It just struck me as another difference between our religious establishments and those of Britain.\u00a0 England has always done a good job of integrating old and new, and St. Martin in the Fields is a perfect example of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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