St John, Hackney
By James Spiller 1791-94, restored after fire in 1955 by N.F. Cachemaille-Day and William C. Lock. During the Covid pandemic the interior was reordered by the Holy Trinity, Brompton plant that occupies the building. This page shows the current layout in the first set of images and the 2013 layout seen on my first visit.
2022
2013 below
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St Augustine, Hackney
The medieval west tower of the former Hackney parish church.
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St Mary at Eton, Hackney Wick
A Bodley & Garner church of 1890-92, with the western bays of the nave added by Cecil Hare in 1911-12. The name comes from this originally being a mission to the east end from Eton School. The church has recently been restored alongside the construction of new buildings on either side of the site. The lower photos show the church in December 2012 prior to the work,the upper ones post restoration in September 2017.
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Pre restoration pictures below |
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St Columba (fomer), Kingsland Road, Hoxton now Christ Apostolic Church
Originally an Anglican church of St Columba, of 1869-71 by James Brooks. Christ Apostolic Church (Bethel) since 1980.
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St Michael, Mark Street, Shoreditch
An early James Brooks church of 1863-65. It closed in 1964 and for a long time it was an architectural salvage store called Lassco, Westland & Company which shut in 2019. The lower set of images shows it in that use in 2011.After that closed it became an events venue which has now closed. The church forms part of a group with Sunday Schools (1870) and a clergy house (1867). That house is currently used as a showroom by interior design company House of Hackney and some interiors are in the 2026 set. The church was planned in 2022 to be converted into a shared office space called Vetus joined to a new office block called Novum but as of early 2026 there is little sign of anything happening.
January 2026
December 2012
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Holy Innocents, Paddenswick Road, Hammersmith
Designed by James Brooks in 1887 and built 1889-91. In 1991 the church was divided horizontally and vertically with the western end becoming halls and a nursery, leaving the transepts and chancel as the church space. The Lady Chapel at the eastern end of the south transept was also removed. Older halls to the south-east were replaced by housing. The interior is still typically Brooks and contains a huge baldacchino by Ernest Geldart and glass designed by Henry Holliday.
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Our Lady of the Rosary and St Dominic, Haverstock Hill (Roman Catholic)
A vast church, the foundations were designed by Gilbert Blount but the body of the church was designed by Charles Alban Buckler 1874-83. The outer aisles are separately gabled and each is a side chapel representing one of the mysteries of the Rosary, just a selection of the glass, altar and decoration are shown.
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St Stephen, Rosslyn Hill
Next to the Royal Free Hospital at Hampstead, the masterpiece of S.S. teulon 1869-73. Derelict and vandalised for many years it has now been restored as a community centre.
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St Paul, Wightman Road, Harringay
By Peter Jenkins 1988-93 after the previous church was destroyed by fire.
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Christ Church, Highbury Grove, Highbury, N5 1SA
By T. Allom 1847-48. The nave was exteded in 1872 by Williams and Crouch. The crossing is octagonal.
London Churches in photographs 