St John's, Smith Square: A Masterpiece of English Baroque Architecture

St John's, Smith Square, designed by Thomas Archer, is a Grade I listed building standing in Westminster, London. Constructed in 1728, it cost £40,875 and is regarded as one of the finest works of English Baroque architecture. Four corner towers are a defining feature, and the building is often referred to as 'Queen Anne's Footstool' due to a legend where the Queen kicked over her footstool and asked for the design to look like it.

It was first built as one of the so-called Fifty New Churches, a project initiated by an Act of Parliament in 1711 to strengthen the Anglican Church. The church was built by Edward Strong the Younger, a friend of Christopher Wren the Younger. The building was the site of the grand wedding of Randolph Churchill and Pamela Digby in 1939, which attracted large crowds and a great deal of media attention both in the UK and in the United States.

Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons