St Alban's, Cheam, also known as the Church of St Alban the Martyr, is one of three Church of England churches in the parish of Cheam in the London Borough of Sutton.
It was founded in 1930 and, inspired by the building of The Barn Church, Kew, a barn church in North Sheen (now incorporated into Kew), was constructed using materials from the farmhouse, barns and other outbuildings at Cheam Court Farm, which may have been connected with Henry VIII of England , Henry VIII's Nonsuch Palace. Edward Swan, the Barn Church's architect, was also commissioned as one of the architects for the new church at Cheam.
[Marshall, Charles J. ''A history of the old villages of Cheam and Sutton, which, with part of the parish of Cuddington, now form the Borough of Sutton and Cheam'', first edition (reprinted, with a new addendum and index by H. V. Molesworth Roberts). Wakefield, S.R. Publishers, 1971. ]
The church has a service of worship on Sundays at 10.30 am and a weekday Eucharist at 10:00 am on Wednesdays. Evensong is at 6:00 pm on the 1st Sunday of the month.
The parish publishes a newsletter.
See also
*The Barn Church, Kew
*Barn Church, Culloden
*Barn Church (Michigan)
Gallery
File:St Albans Church, Cheam, SUTTON, Surrey, Greater London 09.jpg, St Alban's Church
File:St Alban, Elmbrook Road, Cheam - Pulpit (geograph 1791363).jpg, The pulpit
File:St Alban, Elmbrook Road, Cheam - Chancel (geograph 1791362).jpg, The chancel
References
External links
Cheam parish: official website
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1930 establishments in England
20th-century Church of England church buildings
Anglican Diocese of Southwark, Cheam
Barn churches in England
Church of England church buildings in the London Borough of Sutton, Cheam
Churches completed in 1930
Churches in the London Borough of Sutton
English churches dedicated to St Alban, Cheam