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Fruit and Wool Exchange

Commercial buildings completed in 1929Former retail markets in LondonOffice buildings completed in 2018Redevelopment projects in LondonSpitalfields
Fruit Exchange and Wool Exchange Building, Brushfield Street 2024 06 20
Fruit Exchange and Wool Exchange Building, Brushfield Street 2024 06 20

The Fruit and Wool Exchange was an exchange market in Spitalfields, London. Opened in 1929, it served as a distribution centre for produce that arrived through the Port of London. The building ceased to function as a fruit and vegetable market in 1991, and was redeveloped into offices between 2015 and 2018.

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Fruit and Wool Exchange
Spitalfields Market, Greater London Whitechapel

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Spitalfields Market

Spitalfields Market
E1 6PW Greater London, Whitechapel
England, United Kingdom
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Christ Church, Spitalfields
Christ Church, Spitalfields

Christ Church Spitalfields is an Anglican church built between 1714 and 1729 to a design by Nicholas Hawksmoor. On Commercial Street in the East End and in today's Central London it is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, on its western border facing the City of London, it was one of the first (and arguably one of the finest) of the so-called "Commissioners' Churches" built for the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches, which had been established by an Act of Parliament in 1711. The purpose of the Commission was to acquire sites and build fifty new churches to serve London's new settlements. This parish was carved out of the circa 1 square mile (2.6 km2) medieval Stepney parish for an area then dominated by Huguenots (French Protestants and other 'dissenters' who owed no allegiance to the Church of England and thus to the King) as a show of Anglican authority. Some Huguenots used it for baptisms, marriages and burials but not for everyday worship, preferring their own chapels (their chapels were severely plain compared with the bombastic English Baroque style of Christ Church) though increasingly they assimilated into English life and Anglican worship – which was in the eighteenth century relatively plain. The Commissioners for the new churches including Christopher Wren, Thomas Archer and John Vanbrugh appointed two surveyors, one of whom was Nicholas Hawksmoor. Only twelve of the planned fifty churches were built, of which six were designed by Hawksmoor.