Saving The (Empty) Hawksmoor Churches

A really fantastic story from The Times yesterday: “The Great Hawksmoor Rescue Project” all about, well, the title kind of explains it all, but we’ll give the quick rundown. It concerns the shift in England from tearing everything “old” down and replacing it with things more modern, to now being very insistent that they maintain their connection to history by leaving these older buildings up. But the big connundrum, in this case the focus is on churches built in the 18th century by Nicholas