St Martin in the Fields
Sited in the northeast corner of London’s Trafalgar Square, St Martin in the Fields is a landmark London building. The current church was constructed in 1724, having been rebuilt on a number of occasions dating back almost 800 years. At one time it was indeed surrounded by fields but the landscape of today is very different, with tourists busy visiting the areas many attractions, from the National Gallery to the nearby London Coliseum.
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Trafalgar Square Twilight Panorama
A high resolution panorama overlooking Trafalgar Square, London, as the lights come on to illuminate Nelson’s Column, the Landseer lions and the fountains. The National Gallery, St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Canada House, and South Africa House can all be seen around the square with the London Coliseum (home of the English National Opera) in the background.
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The Birds, Trafalgar Square
Pigeons have enormous fields of vision – they can see 340-degrees around without moving, thanks to their side-mounted eyes. The peripheral vision of each eye is so great that the two visual fields overlap, giving the pigeon a binocular field of 24-degrees when it looks straight ahead. Trafalgar square celebrates the famous naval victory at…
