Blake was christened in this Wren church on December 11th, 1757. By rights, however, the ceremony should have taken place in the Blakes' own parish church of St. Anne's Soho (Wardour Street), since St. James's was in fact in the next-door parish of Westminster.

Given Blake's scorn for Newton, it is an irony that this church is diagonally opposite the philosopher's London residence in Jermyn Street.

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