RIBA curator Charles Hind looks at the influence of St Martin-in-the-Fields on churches across the British Empire, through a 19th-century aquatint of St John’s Church, Calcutta, from the RIBA’s collections.
This item is on display at the Empire Builders exhibition at the V&A until 15 June 2014, part of the RIBA’s Brits Season.
Discover more about architecture and the collections of the RIBA at http://www.architecture.com . More images from the collections can be seen online on http://www.ribapix.com .
Music credit:
‘ Suite I, No. 2 in F major, HWV 427 – II. Allegro’ by George Frideric Handel
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