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{{Other uses}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}} {{Use British English|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox church | name = St Martin-in-the-Fields | fullname = | other name = | image = Iglesia de San MartΓn en los Campos, Londres, Inglaterra, 2014-08-11, DD 164 (brightened).jpg | caption = The church in 2014 | pushpin map = United Kingdom London Westminster | pushpin label position = | osgraw = TQ 30102 80541 | location = [[Trafalgar Square]], [[Westminster]]<br />London, {{postcode|WC|2}} | country = England | coordinates = {{Coord|51|30|32|N|0|07|37|W|region:GB-WSM_type:landmark|display=title,inline}} | denomination = [[Church of England]] | previous denomination = [[Catholic]] | churchmanship = | website = {{URL|http://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/}} | founded date = <!-- {{start date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} - but see note below --> | founder = | dedication = [[Martin of Tours|Saint Martin]] | dedicated date = | consecrated date = | status = [[Parish church]] | functional status = Active | heritage designation = Grade I | designated date = | architect = [[James Gibbs]] | architectural type = Church | style = [[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclassical]] | years built = 1721β1726 | groundbreaking = | completed date = | construction cost = | closed date = | demolished date = | length = <!-- {{convert| }} --> | width = <!-- {{convert| }} --> | spire quantity = 1 | spire height = {{convert|192|ft|m}} | materials = | bells = 12 | bells hung = full circle | bell weight = {{long ton||29|1|1 }} | parish = | deanery = {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100315140115/http://www.westminsterstmargaret.org/ Westminster (St Margaret)]}} | archdeaconry = [[Archdeacon of London|London]]<br />(previously [[Archdeacon of Charing Cross|Charing Cross]]) | diocese = [[Diocese of London|London]] | province = [[Province of Canterbury|Canterbury]] | vicar = [[Sam Wells (priest)|Sam Wells]] | warden = Chris Braganza<br />Adrian Harris | director = Andrew Earis<ref>{{cite news|title=An interview with Andrew Earis|url=http://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/news/an-interview-with-andrew-earis/|publisher=stmartin-in-the-fields.org|date=27 October 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122160908/http://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/news/an-interview-with-andrew-earis/|archive-date=22 November 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref> | organistdom = | organist = | embedded = {{Infobox historic site | embed = yes | designation2 = UK Grade I | designation2_offname = Church of St Martin in the Fields | designation2_date = 24 February 1958 | designation2_number = 1217661<ref>{{National Heritage List for England |num=1217661|desc=Church of St Martin in the Fields|access-date=22 November 2016}}</ref> }} }} '''St Martin-in-the-Fields''' is a [[Church of England]] parish church at the north-east corner of [[Trafalgar Square]] in the [[City of Westminster]], [[London]]. Dedicated to Saint [[Martin of Tours]], there has been a church on the site since at least the medieval period. This location, at that time, was farmlands and fields beyond the [[London wall]]. It became a principal [[Church of England parish church|parish church]] west of the old City in the early modern period as Westminster's population grew. When its medieval and Jacobean structure was found to be near failure, the present building was constructed in an influential [[Neoclassical architecture|neoclassical]] design by [[James Gibbs]] in 1722β1726. The church is one of the visual anchors adding to the open-urban space around Trafalgar Square.
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