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Chapel, Central Middlesex Hospital, Park Royal
A very small chapel with some contemporary non figurative stained glass. The building was designed by HLM Architects and Avanti Architects and opened in 2006.[2]
Chapel, Northwick Park Hospital, near Harrow
In the main building of this hospital designed by Llewelyn-Davies & Weeks and built from the 1960s. The chapel has a balcony area connected by staircase to the main chapel on the lower floor.
St James (Former) and Cambridge Hall (former), now T.S. Bicester, Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn Park
In 1862, a local land developer called James Bailey granted a lease to the Rev. Woodhouse and the Trustees of Cambridge Road Chapel to build an ‘iron church’ for Church of England worship. A tin tabernacle called St James was built in 1863 as a temporary church. It became part of the “Free Church of England” but by 1875 it had passed to the Congregational Church. In 1894 it was taken over by a Christian group who renamed it Cambridge Hall. It was also used for wider community use but was due to close in 1939.
In 1948 it was leased to the Willesden Sea Cadets Unit and renamed the Lord Lloyd Memorial Hall. During the 1950s and 1960s they fitted it out fit to represent a naval ship and it became Training Ship Bicester. The “ships chapel” is fitted out with remains of a set from the 1964 film “Beckett”.
St Andrew new church, Church lane, Kingsbury
On a commanding site above the road. The church was built by Samuel Daukes and Hamilton in 1847 in Wells Street in central London. It was one of the earliest scholarly gothic revival buildings and had a stong Anglo-catholic ethos. Surplus to requirements in central London tt was moved to Kingsbury in 1934 by W.A Forsyth to provide an appropriately sized church for the growing suburb. Inside there are furnishings by the cream of 19th century architects and designers including Alfred Bell, Butterfield, Pearson and Street
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St Andrew old church, Church lane, Kingsbury
A small Norman and medieval church, restored in 1888 by Newman and Newman, in an overgrown churchyard. It was replaced by the relocated new St Andrew’s next door and is now maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust and leased to a Romanian Orthodox congregation.
St Augustine, Forty Lane, Wembley Park
A small church well north of Wembley town centre. It dates from 1953 and is by W. Wylton Todd and Guy Biscoe, replacing a structurally compromised church of 1926. The tower was added in 1979.
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St Joseph, High Road, Wembley (Roman Catholic)
A large church at one end of the main street, it dates from 1957 and is by Reynolds and Scott.
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St Michael Tokyngton, St Michael’s Avenue, Wembley
A 1932 basilica by Cyril Farey serving a large area of 1930s suburbia north of the Harrow Road. The Tokyngton name derives from a medieval chapel that was in the area until the 1700s.
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St Patrick, Hardie Close, Neasden (Roman Catholic)
A small church near the huge Neasden IKEA off the North Circular Road and serving the St Raphael’s Estate. It is by Burles, Newton and Partners and dates from 1979.
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English Martyrs, Chalkhill Road, Wembley (Roman Catholic)
Serving the Chalkhill Estate, but not far from the two Anglican churches at Kingsbury. This is a church of 1971 by B.D. Kaye of Sterrett and Kaye, with the glass and sculptures by Carmel Cauchi.
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London Churches in photographs 