St Paul's, Hammersmith
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St Paul's is a Grade II* listed Anglican church on Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London.
Saint Paul's Church in Hammersmith
Hammersmith Church 1813
Interior of St Paul's Hammersmith (taken during restoration work)
Sir Nicholas Crispe, 1st Baronet was an English Royalist and a wealthy merchant who pioneered the West African slave trade in the 1630s; a customs farmer; Member of Parliament for Winchelsea Nov. 1640
St Paul's, Hammersmith
…All Saints Church in Fulham led to demands for a chapel of ease to be built in the area. On 5 December 1629, "Inhabitants of Hammersmith", including Sir Nicholas Crispe, a wealthy merchant who had lived since 1625 in a house on the riverside in Hammersmith, petitioned Bishop Laud, Bishop of London and later Archbishop…
portrait by Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen