page_title: St Andrew Holborn (church)
section_title: 20th century to present
hierarchical_section_title: St Andrew Holborn (church) / History / 20th century to present
caption_attribution_description: English: External sculptural detail on the Church of St Andrew in Holborn, City of London. The image depicts the Day of Judgement.
context_page_description: The Church of St Andrew, Holborn is a Church of England church on the northwestern edge of the City of London, on Holborn within the Ward of Farringdon Without.
context_section_description: During the London Blitz, on the night of 7 May 1941, the church was bombed and gutted by German bombs, leaving only the exterior walls and tower. However, instead of demolition which sometimes occurred in similar cases, it was decided after a long delay that it would be restored "stone for stone and brick for brick" to Wren's original designs.
  
  The church was designated a Grade I listed building on 4 January 1950. 
  The church contains stained glass and a mural – depicting the Holy Spirit as a dove – by Brian Thomas.
  In 1955, the Foundling Hospital, which had originally been founded in the St Andrew's parish, sold its premises at Ashlyns School in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. It was decided to transfer a number of items from the Hospital chapel in Berkhamsted back to London, including the mortal remains of Thomas Coram, the Hospital founder, which were exhumed and placed in a tomb in St Andrew's. The casing of the organ, which had originally been given to the Foundling Hospital by George Frideric Handel, was also dismantled and installed in St Andrew's, along with the pulpit and the baptismal font.
  The church re-opened in 1961 as a non-parochial Guild Church intended for serving the local working rather than resident community which had declined as had the City's population as a whole.
  In January 2005 a new large icon was installed, made for the site by the Monastic Family Fraternity of Jesus in Vallechiara. The church runs a selection of recitals and lectures, as well as weekly services and evening concerts.
  In August 2010, St Andrew Holborn's Icon Cross became motorised, allowing the large icon of Jesus on the Cross to be raised and lowered for services.
  In September 2017 controversy occurred when a London Fashion Week show which took place at the church included runway models sporting satanic images and symbols.
caption: External sculpture
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