5184 x 3456 px | 43,9 x 29,3 cm | 17,3 x 11,5 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
6. Juli 2013
Ort:
Lombard Street, London, England.
Weitere Informationen:
This image shows the octagonal clock projecting from the church of St Mary Woolnoth in King William Street, London, England. The building is Nicholas Hawksmoor's only church in the City, and dates from 1716 - 1727. The church sits between Lombard Street and King William Street. The clock was immortalised by T.S. Eliot in his 1922 poem The Waste Land, in which he seems to evoke the oppressive character of the church's architecture and to use it as a metaphor for the spiritual oppression suffered by the wage slaves who scurry past it every day on their way to work: A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet, Flowed up the hill and down King William Street, To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. Source: http://www.timeless-london-attractions.com/st-mary-woolnoth.html
