Willen Church

Sunday's walk (again - sorry!): St Mary Magdalene "is the only surviving church among the buildings designed by the eminent scientist and architect Robert Hooke. Regarded as a classic of early English Baroque architecture, it was designated as a Grade I listed building in 1966." (Wikipedia).


This is Robert Hooke of the famous Hooke's Law of the spring balance - "extension is directly proportional to weight" - and was first to visualise a micro-organism using a microscope: he coined the word "cell". He was born in 1635 on the Isle of Wight, my childhood home, at Freshwater where there is now a road named Hooke's Hill to commemorate him. He is the subject of an excellent display in the Planetarium at Fort Albert, where my wife bought a rather excellent Robert Hooke mug.

Robert Hooke