Angels descend over Hoxton as local church launches new Christmas initiative Sophie Rainbow
Eagle eyed residents may have noticed a few unusual visitors in Hoxton as of late.
More than a thousand angels have been drawn on windows, sprayed on walls, and tucked between railings by two local churches, St Anne’s Hoxton and Grace Church Hackney, a number in rather unusual spots – including one covering a bullet hole in a shop front next to St Anne s, where a shooting occurred earlier in the month.
The initiative emerged when Father Ben Bell, the vicar at St Anne’s, realised that indoor church services would prove a little tricky this year and set about creating the @angelsoverhoxton movement, aiming to inject some hope back onto the streets of London.