Talk:St Martin-in-the-Fields

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Clarify[edit]

In the present day, St Martin-in-the-Fields is well known for its "open door" policy... Can someone clarify what is the "open door" policy? I don't think we can expect the average reader to know. Regards & happy editing, Wile E. Heresiarch 01:41, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Good point, I've added a clarification. -- ChrisO 12:22, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

A "Chinese" church in the first line? Libr — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.97.137.114 (talk) 17:56, 24 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Remains of notables relocated from St Martin-in-the-Fields[edit]

I asked someone via Hotmail about when the guys at the church are going to restore its churchyard. A Mrs. Louise Sherratt responded with an email and told me that "the burial grounds [at the churchyard] themselves were removed many decades ago and the remains respectfully reinterred in appropriate cemeteries elsewhere." You might need an update in this article, okay? --Angeldeb82 19:26, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. I guess you can't read my email, huh. Lucky for me I have a thread about it on Find A Grave here. Well? --Angeldeb82 15:32, 6 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Photo[edit]

Does anyone have a post-restoration photo they can upload to replace the old one? Luwilt (talk) 12:28, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have a pick at commons:category:St Martin-in-the-Fields /Dcastor (talk) 23:56, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in St Martin-in-the-Fields[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of St Martin-in-the-Fields's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "survey":

From St Pancras Old Church: Percy Lovell and William McB. Marcham, ed. (1938). "St. Pancras Old Church". Survey of London: volume 19: The parish of St Pancras part 2: Old St Pancras and Kentish Town. pp. 72–95. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
From St Pancras New Church: The parish of St Pancras part 4: King’s Cross Neighbourhood. Survey of London. Vol. 24. London. 1952. pp. 1–4. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
From St Paul's, Covent Garden: F. H. W. Sheppard (General Editor) (1970). "St. Paul's Church". Survey of London: volume 36: Covent Garden. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 08 November 2011. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help); Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 13:28, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hyphenation[edit]

I note that the church's web site spells the name without hyphenation. Unless someone can give a good reason why we should spell it differently, I am going to change it after an appropriate wait for comment. . . Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk to me • contribs) 15:16, 6 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relevant?[edit]

This passage doesn't seem to me to have much to do with St Martin-in-the-Fields (it's from a self-published source too):

Before embarking for the Middle East Campaign, Edmund Allenby was met by General Beauvoir de Lisle at the Grosvenor Hotel and convinced General Allenby with Bible prophecies of the deliverance of Jerusalem. He told General Allenby that the Bible said that Jerusalem would be delivered in that very year, 1917, and by Great Britain. General Beauvoir de Lisle had studied the prophecies, as he was about to preach at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Chuntuk (talk) 00:52, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Nazareth Community[edit]

Do not a community meet here called the "Nazareth Community"?Vorbee (talk) 08:07, 2 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Why is it called that?[edit]

Why is the church called, "St. Martin-in-the-fields?" I get why it's called St. Martin's, but why in-the-fields? Did he stand out in the fields a lot? LOL. 47.138.92.39 (talk) 03:13, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think that a probable answer is found in the second sentence of the lead: This location, at that time, was farmlands and fields beyond the London wall. Peaceray (talk) 15:12, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]