St John's Hampton Wick is a Grade II listed

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church on Church Grove and St John's Road in

Hampton Wick Hampton Wick, formerly a village, is a Thames-side area of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, and is contiguous with Teddington and Kingston upon Thames. It is buffered by Bushy Park, one of the Royal Parks of London from Hampton an ...

, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It was built to a design by

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in 1829–30.

History

St John's was originally conceived as a chapel of ease to the parish church of St Mary at Hampton about miles away, but following its completion, the district assigned to it was made a separate parish. The

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ers funded its construction on the condition that the parish church should also be enlarged at the same time. The cost of the church and the enclosure of the site was about £4,500. The first stone was laid on 7 October 1829, and the building was completed by 8 November 1830. The building's architect Edward Lapidge also donated the land for it, and paid for the enclosure of the site on one side. Lapidge had been born in Hampton Wick, and designed the present Kingston Bridge nearby. It was built in a plain Gothic Revival style, faced with Suffolk brick and Bath stone. As originally constructed, the church was long and wide, with galleries on three sides, and a recessed window at the east end. It was intended to seat 800 people, half the accommodation being free (i.e. not subject to pew rent). A

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was added in 1887 and the church was restored in 1880 and 1911. In 2010, after five years of closure, the church re-opened its doors under the

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scheme. Services were resumed in December 2010.

Services

Services are held twice on Sunday mornings plus on Sunday evenings. The church describes its services as "informal, modern and family friendly’' within the Church of England.

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