St Peter's Bethnal Green is a 19th-century
church
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in
Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green is an area in the East End of London northeast of Charing Cross. The area emerged from the small settlement which developed around the Green, much of which survives today as Bethnal Green Gardens, beside Cambridge Heath Road. By ...
, London, England.
History
Built as the first of a group of new churches which, in a remarkable church planting movement led by
Bishop Blomfied, came to be known as the '12 apostles of Bethnal Green'. This was an offshoot of Blomfield's Metropolitan Church Fund for Bethnal Green churches.
Present day
In the summer of 2010, the church entered into a church planting partnership with
St Paul's Shadwell to re-energise the church. Since then the congregation has grown from 20 to 120. There are many community projects undertaken and three different types of Sunday service offered at 10am and 11am across a regular month. It is a 'cross-tradition'
Anglican church in the
Diocese of London, with a mixture of sacramental and charismatic worship, and with a strong emphasis on connecting with the parish.
Architecture
Built as a
commissioners' church
A Commissioners' church, also known as a Waterloo church and Million Act church, is an Anglican church in the United Kingdom built with money voted by Parliament as a result of the Church Building Acts of 1818 and 1824. The 1818 Act supplie ...
in 1840–1, its architect was
Lewis Vulliamy
Lewis Vulliamy (15 March 1791 – 4 January 1871) was an English architect descended from the Vulliamy family of clockmakers.
Life
Lewis Vulliamy was the son of the clockmaker Benjamin Vulliamy. He was born in Pall Mall, London on 15 March 17 ...
.
The Vicarage is adjacent, as is a church school, now an organ works. All three buildings are Grade II listed.
As built, its general configuration was that of a typical late Georgian preaching box – broad nave with galleries, west tower and shallow chancel. It was built of stock brick with knapped flint panels and stucco and terracotta trim. The style is very free neo-Norman. St Peter's is now one of only five functioning churches to survive from Bishop Blomfield's original 1840s Bethnal Green churches, and is the only one that remains fully intact. The others were either destroyed in the Blitz or by fire or have now been converted into flats.
References
External links
stpetersbethnalgreen.org*
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Bethnal Green
Bethnal Green is an area in the East End of London northeast of Charing Cross. The area emerged from the small settlement which developed around the Green, much of which survives today as Bethnal Green Gardens, beside Cambridge Heath Road. By ...
Commissioners' church buildings
19th-century Church of England church buildings
Romanesque Revival church buildings in England
Diocese of London
Bethnal Green
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