St. Luke's Church, Kensington, was an
Episcopal
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congregation in
Kensington
Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the West End of London, West of Central London.
The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b ...
neighborhood of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The parish was founded in 1904 as an outgrowth of the Episcopal Hospital Mission. The church – located at the northwest corner of East Huntingdon and B Streets at Kensington Avenue – was designed by Allen Evans of
Furness & Evans Furness & Evans was a Philadelphia architectural partnership, established in 1881, between architect Frank Furness and his former chief draftsman, Allen Evans. In 1886, other employees were made partners, and the firm became Furness, Evans & Company ...
, and completed in 1904. Its parish house, just north of the church, was designed by Furness & Evans, and completed in 1905. Description: "The new
arish housebuilding will cost $35,000, and is to be a two-story building constructed of Holmesburg granite. The first floor will be used for classes—the Sunday School numbers 1,500,—the second floor for the chapel and library, and a gymnasium will be located in the basement."
The parish closed in 1987. St Luke's Church, Kensington, is an among the few surviving reminders of the mid to late 19th century English immigrant experience and community in
Kensington
Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the West End of London, West of Central London.
The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b ...
and
Philadelphia. Movement has been made to celebrate the colonial experience (i.e. Penn Treaty Park) and preserve the 19th century "new immigrant" experience (i.e. St. Laurentius Church, in
Fishtown) in the greater Kensington area. Scholars often refer to this immigrant group as hidden and forgotten.
/sup> These immigrants, to outsiders, blended in and disappeared. However, as the property demonstrates, mid to late 19th century English immigrants, far from being hidden, built unique neighborhoods, cultural institutions, and worship sites.
History
Leadership
Rectors
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is the priest elected to head a self-supporting parish.
* The Rev. Joseph Manuel (1904-1914)
* The Rev. Samuel Babcock Booth (1914-1919)
* The Rev. Perry Austin (1919-1923)
* The Rev. William J. Hawthrone (1923-1936)
* The Rev. David C. Colony (1937-1942)
* The Rev. Gideon C. Montgomery (1943-1947)
* The Rev. William H. Jefferys (1949-1951)
* The Rev. John Waterloo Treleaven (1952-1958)
* The Rev. H. Roberts Lorenz (1958-1969)
* The Rev. Theodore H. Henderson (1970-1977)
* The Rev. E. Clifford Cutler (1978-1985)
* The Rev. Carl Metzger (1986-1987)
References
External links
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Booklet of St. Luke's Church, Kensington (1979)
Parish Handbook of St. Luke's Church, Kensington (1979)
Yearbook of St. Luke's Church, Kensington (1945)
Parish Profile of St. Luke's Church, Kensington (1985)
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Episcopal churches in Pennsylvania
Churches in Philadelphia
Kensington, Philadelphia
1904 establishments in Pennsylvania
Churches completed in 1904
Religious organizations disestablished in the 20th century