St Lawrence Whitchurch

St. Lawrence, Whitchurch, is a church of England parish church in Little Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow, in Edgware in England. The constructing is Grade I listed. It retains a stone tower courting from ca. 1360, but the major frame of the building was built within the eighteenth century in Baroque fashion. The unique medieval church turned into reconstructed by means of the architect John James, operating for a wealthy client James Brydges. Brydges, who became later 1st Duke of Chandos, began rebuilding the church and Cannons, his nearby usa house, across the time he succeeded his father as ninth Baron Chandos in 1714.

Brydges had a habit of converting his architect and in 1715 John James changed into replaced as architect for the residence through James Gibbs, who can also have been worried inside the crowning glory of the church previous to its reopening in 1716. Brydges later built a personal chapel within the house, but he persisted to take a personal hobby within the church, wherein he had a gallery for the usage of himself and his entourage. He had the proper to appoint the minister, and chose John Theophilus Desaguliers FRS, who additionally served him as chaplain and engineering consultant.