A church with a routemaster bus stained glass window
On site of an ancient church stands its modern successor, and a most curious set of modern stained glass windows.
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Inside the restored Middlesex Hospital chapel
Until fairly recently, there was a large plot of empty land in central London, sealed off, and incongruously, a small church sat alone in the wasteland.
London’s last surviving Catholic Embassy Chapel of Penal Times
Located on a side street near Soho can be found a modest looking building with a history seeped in riot, anti-catholic executions, and war.
Visit the Museum of Methodism
In 1778, a new chapel opened on the edges of the City of London for the new Christian movement known as the Methodists, and it’s still there, just down the road from Old Street tube station, with a museum in its basement.
The 300 year old Chapel of Ease just off Oxford Street
Just behind Debenhams on Oxford Street can be found a building that looks like a church, but isn’t. A building that was consecrated, but not as a church, even though it is used for worship.
A hidden oasis of calm next to Marble Arch
A quiet haven of peace sits on blood-stained land opposite Hyde Park. A living memorial to those who died for their beliefs in more troubled times.
Simon Jenkins on the English Church
I found a rather curious little series on Channel 4 a few weeks ago and recently finished watching the last of the six half-hour episodes.
The Newgate Execution Bell – now in a Holborn Church
A large church stands on the corner opposite the Old Bailey and I have passed its locked gates for rather more years than I care to remember, for church that is open for a few hours each day during the week – has never been open when I am passing.
A look around a gothic inspired church in Westminster
Although just a couple of minutes walk from the activity of Victoria Street and around the corner from Channel4’s head office, it is a church you would not casually pass unless you had certain reason to use the street it fronts onto.
The splendour that is the Victorian “Cathedral of North London”
As Private Eye is wont to say, it’s Grim up North London, but if the eponymous characters of that newspaper were to dart out of their shell, they might find a remarkable building peaking its tall spire above the council estates of Kilburn.
England’s oldest Lych-Gate found in South London
If you approach an old church, mainly in towns and villages rather than cities, you might enter the churchyard through a small wooden gate with a pitched roof. These small gatehouses though have a particularly macabre history, for this is…
Two Churches and Two Stations in Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green sports two Churches with very notable and yet also very different representations of the Stations of the Cross. Both built within 80 years of each other, yet the older is also the younger, thanks to the after effects…
Finally getting inside St Dunstan-in-the-West
There is a very distinctive church frontage almost next to the Royal Court of Justice on Fleet Street that I have wanted to peer inside for years, but every time I walked past, the doors have been firmly closed.
A 15th century Clock Tower is fund raising for urgent repairs
There has been a church tower on the banks of the Thames in Fulham for over 600 years ringing out the hours and calls to prayer, and I was given a chance to have a climb up the 15th century…
A look around Chipping Ongar Church and Castle
St Martins Church Chipping Ongar Peeking out behind some wonky wooden buildings on Chipping Ongar’s main street is a glimpse of the ancient town church, which is nearly a thousand years old. Built around the time of the Norman Conquest…
GASP at the splendour of St Christopher’s Chapel inside GOSH
A chapel that dates from 1875 and built in the High Victorian style that almost out-Pugins Pugin for sheer over the top decoration.
Hidden under a main road – the remains of Merton Priory
The construction of a moderately new main road in Colliers Wood, Sth London wiped out the remains of one piece of London history, but uncovered an even older remnant of even more importance. The lost history is the disused, and…
HMS Ark Royal’s Battle Ensign (not) on display in Docklands
Just up the road from where I live is St Anne’s Limehouse, a Hawksmoor Anglican Church that was consecrated in 1730, one of the twelve churches built through the 1711 Act of Parliament. The Church is significant for several reasons,…
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