Found a wealth of interesting information on this topic lately. Lud Heat (1975) by Iain Sinclair introduced the idea of “lines of influence” formed by churches and monuments designed and built by architects following the Great Fire of London in 1666. This idea was picked up by Peter Ackroyd in his 1985 novel Hawksmoor, and inspired Alan Moore to write the graphic horror novel From Hell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawksmoor_(novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell
“I think that the dead are the great teachers, I think that all of these sites could be possible to get into a sort of meditative wisdom exchange with the dead. The dead don’t stop, I mean the energies can’t possibly just stop or decay at that point. I think distinctly that the sort of dreams of the dead fertilise the ground of those churches. [Normally?] I think that in some way that the force of the church could be cancelled by the removal of the dead from underneath it. ’cause by lying these dead, who represent different periods in time, so that the present is constantly there, because people are being buried all the time. You’ve got them laid out geometrically underneath the whole body of the church, they are the emanations of the dead rising. And there are the praises lifting through the roof, you’ve got [code?]”
— Iain Sinclair interviewed by Paul Green, The Lud Heat Tapes (1979), originally made for BBC Radio 3
The Lud Heat Tapes 1979 - with Iain Sinclair and Paul Green: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=eXR2Px3aNB0
Interview with author Paul Green - The Thinker's Garden: https://archive.ph/QKSdv / https://web.archive.org/web/20250726101838/https://thethinkersgarden.com/interview-author-paul-green/
“…the churches of Nicholas Hawksmoor soon invade the consciousness, the charting instinct. Eight churches give us the enclosure, the shape of the fear; — built for early century optimism, erected over a fen of undisclosed horrors, white stones laid upon the mud and dust, In this air certain hungers were activated that have yet to be pacified; no turning back, as Yeats claims ‘the stones once set up traffic with the enemy.’”
— Lud Heat (1975) by Iain Sinclair
“There are various ways to read the pattern of Hawksmoor’s churches, did he, for example, align them with each other and build up a pentacle or a series of shapes and triangulations across London? Or was this accidental? Authors like Peter Ackroyd have suggested that there was an actual occult pattern built into the design of the Hawksmoor churches. They way I would rather see them perhaps, is that they honoured patterns of energy that existed in London from the earliest times.”
— Iain Sinclair, Terror and Magnificence
TERROR AND MAGNIFICENCE - THE FILM - with John Harle, Iain Sinclair and Keith Critchlow: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Tegv_KCyZZA
LONDON'S SCARIEST MYSTERIES - Nicholas Hawksmoor (ITV, 2002): https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=oTALUudIf2A
Mental travel: an interview with Iain Sinclair – Zoamorphosis | The Blake 2.0 Blog: https://archive.ph/XVrcd / https://web.archive.org/web/20210515083848/https://zoamorphosis.com/2021/04/mental-travel-an-interview-with-iain-sinclair/
Doc 048: Anna Aslanyan - Interlude Docs: https://archive.ph/iTnKC / https://web.archive.org/web/20221129202419/https://interludedocs.com/2021/10/doc-048-anna-aslanyan/
Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair on London mythologies and the power of place - the lost byway: https://archive.ph/Cnsql / https://web.archive.org/web/20240614211923/https://thelostbyway.com/2017/09/alan-moore-iain-sinclair-london-mythologies-power-place.html
'On an Eastern Arc': Reading Iain Sinclair's interest in Christ Church, Spitalfields and its uncanny territory through East End discourse | Literary London Society: https://archive.ph/7xtDq / https://web.archive.org/web/20200719214023/http://literarylondon.org/the-literary-london-journal/archive-of-the-literary-london-journal/issue-3-2/on-an-eastern-arc-reading-iain-sinclairs-interest-in-christ-church-spitalfields-and-its-uncanny-territory-through-east-end-discourse/
'The Wisdom of Solomon' Stone Pyramid - Atlas Obscura: https://archive.ph/e5iQr / https://web.archive.org/web/20250709210952/https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/wisdom-of-solomon-stone-pyramid-annes-limehouse-church
Nicholas Hawksmoor – the ‘Devil’s Architect’ – The Square Magazine: https://archive.ph/v8P7N / https://web.archive.org/web/20250707215219/https://www.thesquaremagazine.com/mag/article/202010nicholas-hawksmoor-the-devils-architect/