St Michael and All Angels Church is a

Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

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 ...

church in

Barnes Barnes may refer to: People * Barnes (name), a family name and a given name (includes lists of people with that name) Places United Kingdom *Barnes, London, England **Barnes railway station ** Barnes Bridge railway station ** Barnes Railway Bri ...

in the

London Borough of Richmond upon Thames The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames () in southwest London forms part of Outer London and is the only London borough on both sides of the River Thames. It was created in 1965 when three smaller council areas amalgamated under the London ...

. It is located at 39 Elm Bank Gardens, London SW13 0NX.

History

The congregation, founded in 1867, initially met in a building in Archway Street that combined a school and a church. A temporary

tin tabernacle A tin tabernacle, also known as an iron church, is a type of prefabricated ecclesiastical building made from corrugated galvanised iron. They were developed in the mid-19th century initially in the United Kingdom. Corrugated iron was first us ...

was erected next to the school in 1878. The current building was erected in 1891–93. The architect was Charles Innes, a member of the congregation, who also designed the additions to the

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

chancel In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse. Ove ...

and north aisle of

St Mary's Church, Barnes St Mary's Church, Barnes, is the parish church of Barnes, formerly in Surrey and now in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is a Grade II* listed building. St Mary's Barnes is a thriving Christian community with an electoral roll ...

. A

vestry A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government for a parish in England, Wales and some English colonies which originally met in the vestry or sacristy of the parish church, and consequently became known colloquiall ...

, in a matching style, was added in 1936.

Barbara Pym

The novelist

Barbara Pym Barbara Mary Crampton Pym FRSL (2 June 1913 – 11 January 1980) was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are ''Excellent Women'' (1952) and '' A Glass of Blessings'' (1958). In 1977 ...

lived in Barnes from 1949 to 1961. She worshipped at St Michael's, and was a member of the Parochial Church Council. London Anglo-Catholic churches feature prominently in Pym's novels, and St Michael's is the model for the church in her 1955 novel '' Less Than Angels'', where Pym describes High Mass on

Whitsunday Whitsun (also Whitsunday or Whit Sunday) is the name used in Britain, and other countries among Anglicans and Methodists, for the Christian High Holy Day of Pentecost. It is the seventh Sunday after Easter, which commemorates the descent of the H ...

:DSCR was code for D: daily celebration of the Eucharist; S: Sung Eucharist on Sundays; C: Confessions; and R: Reservation of the Blessed Sacrament. Charles, Kate, "A mini-history of Anglo-Catholicism", in Bell, Hazel K (Ed), ''No Soft Incense: Barbara Pym and the Church'', (2004: Barbara Pym Society), pp 17-18 at p 18.

Notable clergy

Joe Hawes Joseph Patricius Hawes (born 1965) is a British Anglican priest. Since 2018, he has been the Dean of St Edmundsbury. From 2003 to 2018, he was Vicar of All Saints Church, Fulham in the Diocese of London. His early parish ministry was spent in ...

, later Dean of St Edmundsbury, served as priest-in-charge, and then team vicar, from 1996 to 2003 *

Bruce Ruddock The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has been ...

, later Director of the

Anglican Centre in Rome Anglican Centre in Rome is an ecumenical organisation which is dedicated to improving relations between the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded in 1966 with the encouragement of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterb ...

, served as priest-in-charge from 1988 to 1995

References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Michael and All Angels Church Barnes 1867 establishments in England 19th-century Church of England church buildings

Churches in Barnes, London Grade II listed churches in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames