St Alban's Church Steeple - Copenhagen, Denmark
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dtrebilc
N 55° 41.342 E 012° 35.812
33U E 348936 N 6174087
This elegant steeple is on top of the bell tower of the only Anglican church in Denmark.
Waymark Code: WMHRCV
Location: Denmark
Date Posted: 08/08/2013
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The congregation for the church originally consisted of people from the UK who had settled in Denmark as a result the large volume of shipping that traded with Denmark.
These days the congregation is made up of English speaking people form many different nations.
The funding for the church came about after Princess Princess Alexandra married Queen Victoria’s oldest son Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward the Seventh. They wished to be married in Copenhagen but to have the service conducted in an Anglican church.
The church is in an Early English style, designed by the Victorian church architect Sir Arthur Blomfield, and executed by the Danish architect Professor L. Fenger. As far as possible it is built as it would be in England. The walls are faced externally with cleft flints from Stevns in Denmark, the stone dressings are of the harder quality of limestone from Faxe, also in Denmark, except the spire, which is of cut stone from Åland in Sweden. The facing and mouldings of the internal walls are executed in the fine white Faxe limestone.
Location of the Steeple:
St. Alban's Church
Churchillparken 11
Copenhagen, Denmark
1263
Approximate Date of Construction: 1887
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