St. Paul, Shadwell lurks beyond the high wall of the old London dock across Shadwell Basin, one of the first of the Commissioners’s churches, designed by John Walters, who died in 1821, the year after the church opened, aged 39. It replaced what was known as the Church of Sea Captains and was described in Walters’s obituary in the Gentleman’s Magazine as ‘simply neat, and elegantly chaste’:
I wrongly accused Ted Cullinan of having designed Shadwell Basin. I’ve discovered that it was designed by Richard MacCormac or one of his partners in an early, and good, example of docklands rebuilding from the first days of regeneration (it was completed in 1987), a slightly miscellaneous example of classical elements, with Venetian arches and split pediments, half replicating early nineteenth-century industrial buildings :-
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