St Anne's was a Roman Catholic church in Laxton Place near Regent's Park in London. The church was constructed in 1970 but fell into disuse at the turn of the 21st century and was demolished in 2019 to make way for flats.
History
There had been a school chapel in Little Albany Street since 1857,
replaced in 1938 by a new church in Seaton Place.
The redevelopment of the area in the 1960s included provision for a new church on the corner of Laxton Place and Longford Street.
laid the foundation stone on 30 May 1970 and the church opened later that year.
The UK's small
Chaldean Catholic
The Chaldean Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic particular church ('' sui iuris'') in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church, and is headed by the Chaldean Patriarchate. Employing in its liturgy the East Syri ...
community started worshipping in the church in 1991 under the Right Rev Andreas Abouna.
Worship continued until at least 2003, but the church had closed by 2011. It has since been demolished.
Architecture
The church was designed by Scott and Jaques.
It has curving walls of dark brick, broken up by 17 tall windows.
Trusses of prestressed concrete support a copper roof.
The altar is stone, but the rest of the furnishings are wooden.
Future
In 2011, the Roman Catholic Church proposed that St Anne's be used as the principal church of the
Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in England and Wales is a personal ordinariate in the Latin Church of the Catholic Church immediately exempt, being directly subject to the Holy See. It is within the territory of the Catholic ...
for former Anglicans. Damian Thompson, the religious affairs commentator for ''
The Daily Telegraph
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'' and a prominent supporter of the ordinariate, has rejected this proposal and has described St Anne's as a "cross between a public lavatory and a Christian Science Reading Room".
Thompson preferred that
St Etheldreda's Church Saint/St/St. Etheldreda's Church or the Church of Saint/St/St. Etheldreda may refer to any church dedicated to Æthelthryth or Etheldreda.
These churches include: England
(A-Z by English county)
*St Etheldreda's Church, Ely, Cambridgeshire
*St Et ...
in
Ely Place
Ely Place is a gated road of multi-storey terraces at the southern tip of the London Borough of Camden in London, England. It hosts a 1773-rebuilt public house, Ye Olde Mitre, of Tudor origin and is adjacent to Hatton Garden.
It is privat ...
, the only medieval Roman Catholic church in London, to be used by the ordinariate.
See also
*
Regent's Park Estate – council estate to the north
*
Regent's Place
Regent's Place is a mixed-use business, retail and residential quarter on the north side of Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden. The site is bounded by Osnaburgh Street to the west, Longford and Drummond Streets to the north, and Hamps ...
– new development on other side of Longford St
References
External links
St Anne's Church webpage
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Roman Catholic churches in the London Borough of Camden
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1970
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United Kingdom