The miracle is St Stephen Walbrook

This new regular feature will take you a guide to the best hidden places that you can visit in your lunch break, by Chris O’Donnell. This week: St Stephen Walbrook

Sometimes the best lunch roads are done alone. Without a good intention of a friend from a friend or colleague, you can better hear the story that a place like St Stephen Walbrook tries to tell you.

Built in 1672, he replaced the medieval church which burned in 1666 Great Fire. The old church lives in a recycled stone that you see on the one hand.

Before entering, look down. The Lost Walbrook River flows in the channel under your feet, soaring through Bloomberg, and then a little flatten in Cannon Street, where an old Roman bridge is below the level level. He then ran past The Skinner, Tallow Chandler and Dyer Halls, before passionately throwing himself at his father Thames to the dock.

Christina Inglesias has a public work ‘Forgotten Streams’ only there: a quiet place for lunch sandwich.

But back to our church. First impressions vary. Starbucks looks strange against historical bricks, Portland Stone Fascia is uneven. But then, look up and see the tower. Towering next to him, the Rothschild headquarters designed by the Koolhaus brake named right. Move your eyes from one to another to see how the brake building is the creation of Christopher Wren. The width and perspective of the two towers is almost identical. At that time, one modern architect nodded gracefully to its predecessor.

Now walk slowly climbing the stairs to the beautiful interior. At lunch you might hear resital. On the end of the Jazz Jazz day the morale of the post.

Whatever the noise of the background, you will take a breathing in the use of space and intelligent light from Wren. Here he experimented with St Paul Cathedral, with a floating dome, gold leaves and marble floors. Added to that is an artistic that develops: Altar Henry Moore is beautiful, additional controversial at that time, now a loved feature.

Now looks right. In a simple case is a telephone that changes the world of charity. In 1953, Reverend Chad Varah, lately a priest here, buried a 14-year-old girl who had committed suicide when menstruation began, mistakenly believed that she had a sexually transmitted disease.

He was very traumatized. His research showed that the average of three people was dying because of suicide in London and he saw that there was no real support structure for people in mental problems.

So, he published his own home phone number, MAN 9000, and promised to answer it anytime or night. He was overwhelmed. The assistant is recruited and then trained to listen.

The daily mirror that seems to be the headlines of ‘The Good Samaritan’. The accompanying image shows Chad with his phone, and a global charity body was born. Today, Samaritans took more than 10,000 calls a day in England, and many more throughout the world.

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