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A narrow street of small shops running down to the church where the nave fell in and Pope is buried.
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Church Street is the old route from the centre of Twickenham to St Mary's by the river, and it has stayed narrow and small-scale while everything around it grew: independent shops either side, no room for much traffic, and the church tower at the end of it.
On 9 April 1713 the church's fourteenth-century nave collapsed. John James rebuilt it in red brick with Tuscan pilasters, consecrated in 1714, keeping the fifteenth-century tower, so the building at the foot of the street is medieval for its first forty feet and Georgian above. Alexander Pope, who lived at Twickenham, lies inside under a slab cut with nothing but the letter P. Godfrey Kneller, the portrait painter, was churchwarden here and helped with the plans for the rebuilding; he is buried in the church too.
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