St. Paul’s Bow Common – Discovering one of the UK’s best post-war churches

One of the UK’s best post-war buildings can be found in east London, although it might be fair to say that you might not realise how good it is if you only look at the outside.This is St Paul’s Bow Common, a Grade II* listed building that was built in 1958 on the site of a much older church that had been destroyed during WWII and was a fusion of ideas by both architect and vicar.
The architects were Robert Maguire and Keith Murray. The Revd. Gresham Kirkby, a Christian anarchist, was