Christ Church,

Lambeth Lambeth () is a district in South London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth, historically in the County of Surrey. It is situated south of Charing Cross. The population of the London Borough of Lambeth was 303,086 in 2011. The area expe ...

, England, was founded by the Rev Dr Christopher Newman Hall in 1876 as a Congregational chapel, on Westminster Bridge Road. It drew its congregation largely from

Surrey Chapel The Surrey Chapel (1783–1881) was an independent Methodist and Congregational church established in Blackfriars Road, Southwark, London on 8 June 1783 by the Rev. Rowland Hill. His work was continued in 1833 by the Congregational pastor R ...

. Christ Church formed part of a complex of new mission buildings, including the Lincoln Tower and a new premises for Hawkstone Hall. On Newman Hall's retirement, it passed to

F. B. Meyer Frederick Brotherton Meyer (8 April 1847 – 28 March 1929), a contemporary and friend of D. L. Moody and A. C. Dixon, was a Baptist pastor and evangelist in England involved in ministry and inner city mission work on both sides of the Atlant ...

The modern-day chapel

Stained glass window Christ Church Lambeth

Christ Church was rebuilt on a smaller scale in the late 1950s and early 1960s, following the destruction of the original church during the Second World War, and was combined with Upton Chapel ( Baptist), which had also been destroyed during the war (the Lambeth Road ''Upton Chapel'' had been built in 1862, providing a purpose-built chapel for baptist meetings that had been originated in 1785 by James Upton). The chapel is now known, in this combined form, as ''Christ Church & Upton Chapel''

United Reformed The United Reformed Church (URC) is a Protestant Christian church in the United Kingdom. As of 2022 it has approximately 40,000 members in 1,284 congregations with 334 stipendiary ministers. Origins and history The United Reformed Church resul ...

, and more recently as ''Church.co.uk, Waterloo'' following its association with the Oasis Trust. The tower is occupied by Shiva Limited. The chapel is inconspicuous, being integrated into an office block of a modernist architectural style. Its interior is used as a café as well as a chapel. Here, a plaque, dating from 1894, has been displayed – salvaged from the chapel built by Newman Hall. It reads: A stained glass window illuminates the chapel from the east. On the exterior of the chapel, a foundation stone records details its rebuilding in 1959. The architect was P. J. Darvall ARIBA, the minister was Rev. P. Saunders, and the stone was laid by J. Rider Smith. In between 2013-2014 the whole church site was converted into Oasis Academy Southbank, a secondary academy school, part of the Oasis Academy network. The Chapel was converted into a sports hall. The stained glass window has been boarded up due to its out date depictions of black people and slavery.

The Victorian chapel

The Victorian Christ Church was bombed during World War II, and only the adjoining

Lincoln Memorial Tower The Lincoln Memorial Tower or Lincoln Tower is a Gothic revival tower in Lambeth, London, housing small meeting rooms, that was opened in 1876 in memory of Abraham Lincoln, and paid for partly by Americans. Once part of a complex of nineteenth cen ...

remains. The original foundation stone of Newman Hall's ''Christ Church'' was salvaged after the war, and has been placed at the foot of the nearby Tower on Westminster Bridge Road. It reads;

References

{{Churches in Lambeth

External links

Oasis Academy Southbank
Modernist architecture in London Churches in the London Borough of Lambeth Churches bombed by the Luftwaffe in London Buildings and structures in the United Kingdom destroyed during World War II United Reformed churches in London

The modern-day chapel

The Victorian chapel

See also

References

External links