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St Martin-in-the-Fields is a Church of England parish church at the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, London. Dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours , there has been a church on the site since at least the medieval period.
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.
Many churches are named after Saint Martin of Tours. St Martin-in-the-Fields, at Trafalgar Square in the centre of London, has a history appropriately associated with Martin's renunciation of war; Dick Sheppard, founder of the Peace Pledge Union, was Vicar 1914–26, and there is a memorial chapel for him, with a plaque for Vera Brittain, also ...
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]
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]
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.