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The Greeks were mocking the Egyptian burial monuments as resembling stony cakes.’ However, another theory is that it may come from the Roman word ’pyramid’ which itself came from the Greek word ‘puramid’ which meant ‘a cake made out of roasted meat’. ‘The word ‘pyramid’ may have come from the Egyptian hieroglyph for pyramid which was ‘MR’ which was often written as mer, mir or pimar. Nicolas Poussin – the Sacraments – Ordination 1 – shared under Wiki Commons He was a highly regarded painter in the 18 th century and may have been one of the inspirations for the Darnley Mausoleum. There is also a building with a pyramid roof in the background of a 1647 painting by Nicholas Poussin, ‘The Sacraments of Ordination’. The Pyramid of Caiius Cestius in Rome – shared under Wiki Commons They may have been inspired by the tomb of Caius Cestius in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

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‘Hawksmoor apparently made plans for a full reconstruction of Solomon’s Temple, a monument that was thought to express the universe’s secrets with its geometry.’Īs I said in my post on the Darnley Mausoleum, the pyramid fascinated architects of the 18 th century. The Solomon reference could be a nod to King Solomon who Freemasons revered. ‘Hawksmoor was a noted Freemason and fond of peppering his buildings with pagan symbols such as obelisks and pyramids.’

‘colossal bust of Lord William Howard, the 3rd Earl’s great, great, great grandfather which sits on a stone plinth.’ĭavid Castleton says in his fascinating blog post on pyramid tombs that, He designed it in 1728 and it contains the However, It wasn’t the only pyramid that Hawksmoor designed as he’s also responsible for the Pyramid at Castle Howard in Yorkshire. Coat of arms on the pyramid copyright Carole Tyrrell Nicholas Hawksmoor, who designed St Anne’s, was known as ‘the Devil’s architect’ and worked with Christopher Wren on various buildings.

On one side it has an eroded crest and coat of arms with ‘the Judgement of Solomon’ inscribed on it in both English and Hebrew. It is reputed that the builders may have just left it there. No one’s sure if it’s an actual grave marker or was originally intended to be the pinnacle on top of the church tower. Then I saw the pyramid – well, I could hardly miss it as it’s 9 feet high and nestles up to a tall tree. Hawksmoor’s Pyramid copyright Carole Tyrrell After it was gutted by fire in 1850 it was restored to its original beauty and has a Baroque style interior from what I could see from photos on the church’s website. It is a very large church and was consecrated in 1730. St Anne’s is one of London’s six Hawksmoor churches and was sadly closed when I visited. The churchyard is now a park with the aforementioned altar tombs and urns in one area near the road. I could just about discern symbols and scenes on them but maybe on a sunnier day they would be more obvious. Headstones lined the churchyard walls, piled up three deep. It didn’t appear to be very gentrified there – yet. Headstones and altar tombs sulked in the abundant cow parsley as the traffic sloped along Commercial Road. Again, I had been enticed there by ‘strange symbols’ according to a reader in Fortean Times. It was on a cold, wet day in April when I visited St Anne’s church in Limehouse, East London. St Anne’s Limehouse copyright Carole Tyrrell