The Church Index A Book of Metropolitan Churches and Church Enterprise: Part I. Kensington

Transcribed from the [1872] W. Wells Gardner edition by David Price, email [email protected]. Many thanks to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries (Local Studies...

It is hoped and expected by the Vicar that the church will be opened by Easter next (1872). A very fine organ is now being built for this handsome fabric, by Messrs. Hill and So...

St. Matthias stands in the midst of a poor district, which was originally cut off from St. Philip’s, Kensington. A temporary iron church was first opened on April 17, 1869, and...

THIS church, which stands at the foot of the Victoria road, might have been much better placed, so as to be seen in perspective, which indeed its near appearance would warrant....

On Easter Sunday—the great day of all the days in the year with the Catholics—at eleven A.M., commenced the performance of High Mass, and Archbishop Manning, as announced, was p...

Although St. Paul’s was opened by Bishop Blomfield on Christmas Eve, in the year of our Lord 1860, there are no day or Sunday-schools identified with it,—a fact in part resultin...

THERE is a very old lady still living in Young-street, Kensington, whose recollections of early Methodism in that town are still with her, and who is fond of the opportunity of...

THE FATHERS.—At the present time there are fourteen attached to the Oratory, the majority, we are informed, having been previously clergymen in the Church of England. Their name...

A degree, perhaps, of laudable ambition has led some leading Methodist ministers and laymen of late years to desire to place chapels in neighbourhoods different from those usual...

Early in 1845 the Church of St. John was consecrated for divine service in the northern division of Kensington. Misgivings were expressed at the time that the site, one of the m...

ST. JAMES’S, Notting-hill, is situated in the Addison-Road North, and is seen to some advantage at the entrance to the road. From its central position, its square tower and shar...

THE Church of St. John the Baptist is a temporary iron structure, and, like most other buildings of the sort, offers no point for architectural notice. It is, however, very good...

The building is of yellow brick with red bands and stone dressings, and the construction of the roof might be noted as being peculiarly light and elegant in appearance. Mr. St....

THE name of the “Free Tabernacle” and Mr. Varley are indissolubly united in Notting-hill. The Tabernacle is a very plain brick structure, in Norland-square, or rather in St. Joh...

THE meeting-place of this _peculiar_ people is in an upper room, Clarendon-place, Clarendon-road, Notting-hill. It appears filled with 150 persons, and as far as we could incide...

The support of the ministry is from pew-rents and the proceeds of a weekly offering. The other active institutions are a Sunday-school, with over 300 scholars; a home missionary...

SHAFTESBURY HALL.—At this hall, situated at the end of the Portland-road, Notting-hill, a mission preaching service is conducted on Sunday evenings at seven, by Mr. William Wint...

ST. MARK’S, NOTTING-HILL.—Since our first article on this church we have availed ourselves of a second visit. The Rev. E. K. Kendall, the vicar, of whose usual ministry we had h...

KENSINGTON PALACE CHAPEL.—The palace is always associated with Kensington, being in the very heart of the parish, although strictly speaking not belonging to the parish. It is t...

THAT we live in a Church-building age is made manifest in the foregoing pages. Of the fifty-three Churches and Chapels in Kensington, fifteen have been erected and opened within...

THE new Parish Church has progressed slowly towards completion; and it is hoped by its promoters that it may be opened by the first week in May. The builders, however, have a sl...

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