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St Stephen's Church, Ealing
St Stephen's Church is a Church of England church on Castlebar Hill in Ealing. It was founded in 1867 as a Christian mission, mission and is now established as a separate parish. The first church building was a temporary tin tabernacle, iron church which was then replaced in 1876 by a substantial Gothic Revival architecture, Victorian Gothic stone building which is now listed building#Categories of listed building, Grade II listed. Subsidence made that unsafe and it was deconsecrated in 1979. It has been converted to flats but still forms the landmark centrepiece of the Conservation area (United Kingdom), St Stephen's Conservation Area. The church (congregation), congregation now holds services on the site of the church hall which has been redeveloped as the third church building and community centre. History The parish of Christ Church was created in Ealing in 1853 for the increased population in the area, following the opening of a Ealing Broadway station, railway statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain by the 3rd century and to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury. The English church renounced papal authority in 1534 when Henry VIII failed to secure a papal annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. The English Reformation accelerated under Edward VI's regents, before a brief restoration of papal authority under Queen Mary I and King Philip. The Act of Supremacy 1558 renewed the breach, and the Elizabethan Settlement charted a course enabling the English church to describe itself as both Reformed and Catholic. In the earlier phase of the English Reformation there were both Roman Catholic martyrs and radical Protestant martyrs. The later phases saw the Penal Laws punish Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
