The Henry Wood Hall, Trinity Church Square
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The Henry Wood Hall, Trinity Church Square
Image: © Marathon Taken: 24 Oct 2020
The church in the centre of Trinity Church Square is now called Henry Wood Hall and is a recording hall for classical orchestral music. The church had been bombed in World War 2 and that is partly why it has been repurposed as a recording studio. Trinity Church is a “Waterloo church”: one of a number built to celebrate and commemorate the defeat of Napoleon. The others in south London are St John the Evangelist near Waterloo station, St Mark’s in Kennington, St Luke’s in West Norwood and St Matthew’s in Brixton. In front of Henry Wood Hall in the locked garden is this statue which is reputedly of King Alfred. Recent research though has shown the statue to be in two parts of vastly different ages - see https://londonist.com/london/history/southwark-s-statue-of-alfred-the-great
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51.498759
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-0.093846