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The Church of St Stephen in Rochester Row
Rochester Row is a street in the City of Westminster in London that runs between Greycoat Place in the north and Vauxhall Bridge Road in the south.
It is joined by Greycoat Street, Rochester Street, Vincent Square, Emery Hill Street, Vane Street ...
, London, is a grade II* listed building
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.
The architect was Benjamin Ferrey
Benjamin Ferrey List of Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London, FSA Royal Institute of British Architects, FRIBA (1 April 1810 – 22 August 1880) was an English architect who worked mostly in the Gothic revival architecture, Gothic Re ...
and the foundation stone was laid on 20 July 1847. The completed church was consecrated with great ceremony on 24 June 1850, the Festival of the nativity of St John the Baptist
John the Baptist ( – ) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist ...
.
Angela Burdett-Coutts
Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts ( Burdett; 21 April 1814 – 30 December 1906) was a British philanthropist, the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet and Sophia, formerly Coutts, daughter of banker Thomas Co ...
, the philanthropist, donated major funding for the building of the church.
Owing to bomb damage suffered in 1941 by St John's, Smith Square
Smith Square Hall (formerly St John's Smith Square) is a concert hall in the centre of Smith Square, City of Westminster, Westminster, London. Its name was changed by its current operator, Sinfonia Smith Square, in 2024.
Originally a church, ...
, its parish was united with St Stephen's on 24 November 1950, becoming the parish of St Stephen's with St John's.
On 9 June 2022, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
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William was born during the reign of his pat ...
, sold ''The Big Issue
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'' on Rochester Row
Rochester Row is a street in the City of Westminster in London that runs between Greycoat Place in the north and Vauxhall Bridge Road in the south.
It is joined by Greycoat Street, Rochester Street, Vincent Square, Emery Hill Street, Vane Street ...
opposite and outside of the Church of St Stephen.
The organ, dating from 1903, is a fine example of the Leeds organ builder James Jepson Binns
James Jepson Binns (c. 1855–11 March 1928) was a pipe organ builder based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Organs
Pipe organs at the following locations were either built or rebuilt by James Jepson Binns or his JJ Binns company. A number of ...
and consists of two manuals and pedals.
References
External links
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