Chapel, University College Hospital, Euston Road
A small room on the ground floor near the Euston Road, part of a suite of Christian, Muslim and Jewish spaces. It is part of the hospital rebuilding in 2000-2005 by Llewelyn-Davies & Weeks
Swiss Protestant Church, Endell Street, Covent Garden
At the Holborn end of Endell Street, the church was built in 1853-1855 and designed by George Vulliamy and virtually rebuilt following a fire in 1930 and then again in 1946-1949 after WW2 damage.
Chapel (Former), Springfield Hospital, Tooting
This is the site of a mental hospital that is being redeveloped into a large housing complex. The chapel of 1881 is now at one end of a public square. It appears to be currently without a use.
Chapel (Former), College of St Mark & St John, Fulham Road, Chelsea
This was the chapel of the College of St Mark & St John which was later incorporated into Plymouth University. It was designed by Edward Blore and built 1841. The chapel is now divided into two luxury homes.
Chapel, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, Fulham Road, Chelsea
On the 1st floor of the hospital. The current building dates from 1993 and is by architects Sheppard Robson. The chapel is a small room that contains items from some of the hospitals that were combined at this site. This includes a 16th-century Veronese painting that was at the Westminster Hospital and stained glass windows from St Mary Abbots Hospital and the Westminster Children’s Hospital.
St Paul, Augustus Road, Wimbledon Parkside.
Up the hill from Southfields station near Putney common. This is a large church of 1877 (nave) and 1888 (chancel) by Micklethwaite and Somers Clarke. All the stained glass is by Kempe as is the chancel ceiling decoration.
Guards Chapel, Chelsea Barracks (Former) now the King’s Foundation Maria Manetti Shrem Gallery
Built 1861-1863 and designed by George Morgan. The south aisle was added around 1890. It was deconsecrated in 2012 and in 2018 was restored to become a gallery and exhibition space with offices in the north aisle and now used by the King’s Foundation
Chapel, St George’s Hospital, Tooting
The hospital moved from Hyde Park Corner in central London to Tooting from the 1970s onwards. The chapel is a small room in the Spirituality Centre on the ground floor not far from the main entrance. The only unique feature is a perspex artwork on one wall.
St Bernard’s Hospital Chapel (Former), Uxbridge Road, Southall
St Bernard’s was a pioneer mental hospital built in the 1820s, some of the site (next to Ealing Hospital on the borders of Hanwell and Southall) is still in NHS use but much has now been converted to or newly built as housing. The chapel is due to be converted into artist’s studios according to signage (March 2024). It was designed by H. Martin and built in 1881.
St Benet’s Chapel, Mile End Road, Mile End
A domed circular building that is part of the Queen Mary University chaplaincy. Replacing a Ewan Christian building of the 1870s, destroyed in WW2, it was built 1961-62 and designed by Playne & Lacey. Inside the interior is decorated with the ‘Apocalypse of St John’, a sgraffito mural scheme of 1964 by Adam Kossowski.
London Churches in photographs 