St Chad's, Haggerston, located on Dunloe Street in

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, is an urban

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in the

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, England. Built to designs by architect James Brooks and completed in 1869 as part of the Haggerston Church Scheme, the

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church was united with the parish of

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in 1953, following the destruction of that church in an air raid in 1941. St Chad's has a historical association with High Church liturgy and

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History

In 1862, the Shoreditch and Haggerston Church Extension Fund was started. The district of St Chad was created in 1863, with a committee formed for the erection of the church for the new parish holding its first meeting in January 1864. Construction was begun in 1867, and St Chad's was consecrated on April 4, 1869. At its design and completion, St Chad's was situated on the north-east corner of Nichols Square, a poor residential area consisting principally of terraced housing. Brooks also designed and built the adjacent vicarage, circa 1870, which is Grade II* listed. Nichols Square was demolished in 1963 to create the Fellows Court Estate. In 1970, the church of St Augustine's, Yorkton Street (also built as part of the Haggerston Church Scheme), closed and its parish, which had sustained bombing in the war and subsequent demolition, was incorporated into the parish of St Chad's.

Architecture

Interior

Brooks designed the furniture and liturgical furnishings of several of his landmark East London churches. At St Chad's, he designed the reredos, which was carved by Thomas Earp, and the pulpit, and may have been responsible for further details including the rood screen. The clerestory and rose windows are plainly glazed, but there are several stained glass windows by eminent English designers and manufacturers

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, who were responsible for the three large-scale single figures in the apse – depicting a Christ in Majesty, flanked by windows with Mary as the Blessed Virgin, and St Chad, the church's

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Present day

St Chad's is an active Anglican parish church under the ''

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, and is in the deanery of Hackney, in the

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. The building is on

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References

External links

Official websiteChurch of St Chad, Dunloe Street entry
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