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Holy Trinity, Prince Consort Road, Kensington
Bodley’s last church, built 1901-1906 and just behind the Royal Albert Hall. He designed the reredos, altar, stalls, font and pulpit. There is also a monument to him designed by E.P. Warren in 1910. The glass is by Burlison & Grylls.
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St George, Aubrey Walk, Campden Hill, Kensington
High on the ridge above Kensington, an 1864 church by “rogue” architect Enoch Bassett Keeling. It has lost its spire and apse but the iron columns and some of the polychrome brickwork have been re exposed in recent times. The rear two bays of the nave are partitioned off for offices and a hall space.
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St Mark, Allen Street (Coptic Orthodox)
Built to designs of J.M. McCulloch in 1869 as a Scottish Presbyterian church but sold to the Coptic Church in 1975.
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St Mary Abbots, Kensington
Replacing the old church, a large building of 1868-72 by George Gilbert Scott, the tower and spire added 1872-79. The church was bombed in WW2 and received a new ceiling by Romilly Craze in 1955, much of the glass by Clayton & Bell survived although the backgrounds in the aisles and clerestory have been removed.
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St Jude, Courtfield Gardens
The second Gunter Estate church by the Godwins from 1867-70. It is now St Mellitus Theological College.
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St Mary, The Boltons, Kensington
The first Gunter Estate church by George Godwin, dating from 1849-50.
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St Paul, Onslow Square
Now an evangelical plant from Holy Trinity Brompton. It was designed by James Edmeston 1859-60.
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St Peter (Former), Cranley Gardens, Kensington (now St Yeghiche Armenian Apostolic Orthodox)
From the office of the developer of the area, C.J. Freake 1866-67, built for the Church of England and made redundant in 1973. The Armenian Apostolic Orthodox church bought it in 1988 and it was consecrated for their use in 2001. W, D. Caroe added the vaulted north chancel chapel, west gallery, and organ case in 1907-1909. Caroe & Passmore made changes to the chancel in 1922. The nave pews have been replaced by ex-cinema/theatre seats.
Holy Trinity, Brompton Road
The centre of the evangelical movement in Anglicanism, right behind the Brompton Oratory. It dates from 1826-29 and is by T.L. Donaldson. The chancel was added by Arthur Blomfield in 1879-82.
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Assumption and All Saints (Former), Ennismore Gardens, Kensington (now Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God and All Saints Russian Orthodox Cathedral)
Originally an Anglican church of 1848-49 by Lewis Vulliamy. The tower was added in 1870. It is now a Russian Orthodox cathedral.
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London Churches in photographs 