GC2MJ7M Church Micro 1558 - St Luke Old Street (Traditional Cache) in London, United Kingdom created by SirMosby

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A cache by SirMosby Message this owner

Hidden : 1/19/2011

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

St Luke is a historic Anglican church building in the London Borough of Islington. It is now a music centre operated by the London Symphony Orchestra and known as LSO St Luke's.

It is the home of the LSO's community and music education programme LSO Discovery. The main body of the church seats up to 372 and is used by the LSO for rehearsals, and by a wide variety of musicians for performances and recording. Additional rooms in the crypt provide practice facilities for professional musicians, students and community groups.

The church is sited on Old Street, north of the City of London, and was built to relieve the church of St Giles-without-Cripplegate, Cripplegate, under the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches, an attempt to meet the religious needs of London's burgeoning 18th century population. It was completed and the corresponding parish of St Luke's created in 1733.
The church was designed by John James, though the obelisk spire, a most unusual feature for an Anglican church, west tower and flanking staircase wings were by Nicholas Hawksmoor.

The parish was reunited with St Giles in 1959 and St. Luke's font and organ case moved there. The church was closed by the Church of England Diocese of London in 1964 after subsidence made it unsafe and it lay empty. The roof was removed two years later for safety reasons and the shell became a dramatic ruin for 40 years, overgrown with trees, despite being a Grade I listed building.

After several controversial proposals to redevelop offices inside the retained walls, it was converted by the St Luke Centre Management Company Ltd for the London Symphony Orchestra as a concert hall, rehearsal, recording space and educational resource. During the conversion a heavy concrete slab roof was installed which keeps out traffic noise from the nearby road.

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If anybody would like to expand this series please do, I would just ask that you could let sadexploration know first so he can keep track of the Church numbers and names to avoid duplication.

This is a micro cache with only room for the log. Please bring a pen.

***FTF & STF****
Congratulations to Loony Londo for the FTF and to AkumaWolf for the STF.

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Irel ybj!

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A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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