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Places of religious significance. Worth a visit for the architecture, the art or the history.
A Greek Revival church of 1822 whose tower copies a monument in Athens, and which is now a Greek cathedral.
Christianity
William and Henry William Inwood built it in 1822-24 for the Church of England, in yellow stock brick with stone ends and a stone tower. Henry William had travelled in Greece and measured what he found there, and the building is the result: a semicircular portico of giant fluted Ionic columns set between antae, an entablature carried right round the building, antefixae along the cornice - and above the portico a circular stone tower modelled on the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, with its own ring of Ionic columns under a drum of clock faces.
Inside is a rectangle of five bays with a flat ceiling, Ionic columns carrying galleries on three sides, an apsed chancel at the east, and classical ornament throughout taken from the same travels.
It is a Greek Orthodox cathedral now, which is a neater ending than the Inwoods can have expected: a building copied out of Athens by two English architects who went to look, handed over a century and a half later to a Greek congregation.
Open for services; the cathedral's own site carries the times.
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