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Maire Rose Connor London s Most Unusual Windows
From stained glass beauties to ivy-strewn ruins, London s home to some eye-catching windows. Below we ve rounded up a few of the most unusual.
The warped window
Metal mouldings mishap or glitch in the matrix? This warped window on the eastern side of Trafalgar Square s St Martin the Fields church is actually the work of Iranian-born artist Shirazeh Houshiary and was installed in 2005 as part of a £35m renewal of the church.
The stained glass clown
Most churches depict biblical scenes in their stained glass windows, but not Holy Trinity in Dalston. This nightmare-inducing tableau is actually a tribute to Joseph Grimaldi, the London-born entertainer who gave the world the modern clown. The basement of the church even used to house a clown museum, before it sadly closed owing to building safety concerns.