St Philip's Church was a church building at 188

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History

It was designed in a redbrick

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version of the

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by Brierly and Demaine with enough seats for 850 and (to avoid excluding working-class worshippers) no

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s. It was built between 1887 and 1890 and was assigned a District Chapelry by an

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of 12 January 1891. The church's parish hall and parsonage (designed in 1892 by

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) survive at the corner of Buckingham Palace Road and Elizabeth Street. A merger back into the parish of

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was proposed in September 1919. The church building of St Philip's was leased to the Russian Orthodox Church's London parish from 1921 onwards, though the parish still had an Anglican vicar as of 1938-1939 when the post's holder W. H. Elliott successfully petitioned

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for money to repair damage to airflow and light-flow caused by the construction of the new Imperial Airways building nearby. The church was seriously but reparably damaged during

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and the Russian congregation moved out in 1956 when the building was demolished for an extension of

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