The Church of St. Peter-Le-Poer Reconsidered

Abstract

In 1907, the year before its destruction, the parish church of St Peter-Le-Poer, Broad Street (1789–92) in the City of London, was dismissed as architecturally ‘common-place’ (Figs 1–2). Reconsidered almost a hundred years later, it now seems to have been one of the more striking metropolitan churches built during the closing years of the eighteenth century, and surely deserves a closer look.