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The St Martin-in-the-Fields charity supports homeless and vulnerably housed people. The church has raised money for vulnerable people in its annual Christmas Appeal since 1920 and in an annual BBC radio broadcast since December 1927. [25] The Connection at St Martin's is located next to the church, and works closely with the church's charity.
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields (ASMF) is an English orchestra, based in London. John Churchill, then Master of Music at the London church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and Neville Marriner founded the orchestra as "The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields", a small, conductorless string group. The ASMF gave its first concert on 13 November ...
Christ Child, also known as In the Beginning or the Millennium Sculpture, [1] is an outdoor sculpture by Michael "Mike" Chapman, located under the portico of St Martins-in-the-Fields at Trafalgar Square in London, United Kingdom.
St Martin in the Fields was a civil parish in the county of Middlesex, later part of the new County of London, England. It took its name from the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields and was within the Liberty of Westminster. Within its boundaries were the former extra-parochial areas of Buckingham Palace and St James's Palace. [1]
Samuel Martin Bailey Wells (born 1965) is an English priest of the Church of England. Since 2012, he has been the vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields in central London, [1] and Visiting Professor of Christian Ethics at King's College London. [2] In 2018, he was installed as Honorary Canon Theologian of Guildford Cathedral. [3]
Sheppard died at home in Paternoster Row [1] and his funeral in St Paul's Cathedral drew huge crowds. He is buried in the cloisters at Canterbury Cathedral. [7] The character of the priest Robert Carbury in Vera Brittain's novel Born 1925 is based on Sheppard. [8] There is a memorial chapel named after Sheppard at St Martin-in-the Fields. [9]
St Martin-in-the-Fields is a painting of a child street vendor outside the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square, London, painted by William Logsdail from 1888 in the collection of Tate Britain. [1] An engraving from the painting was published in The Graphic, 1894.
Saint Martin's School of Art was established in 1854 by Henry Mackenzie, vicar of the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields. It became independent from the church in 1859. [3] The school was at first housed on the top floor of St Martin's Northern School in Shelton Street (then called Castle Street), to the north of Long Acre. [4]