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St Anargyre Cosmas and Damian, Gordon House Road, Kentish Town (Greek Orthodox)
Just off Highgate Road, a small church from the late 19th century, which became a Greek Orthodox church in 1967 having been built as a Catholic Apostolic church.
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St Benet and All Saints, Lupton Street, Kentish Town
A large church in suburban streets. It was designed by Cecil Hare, who had worked with Bodley. The east end is of 1908 and the nave 1928, replacing one of 1884-85.
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St Luke, Osney Crescent/Caversham Road, Kentish Town
Built 1867-69, the first church by Basil Champneys, with a tall tower at the east end. It was declared redundant in 1991 but since 2011 it has housed an evangelical CoE congregation
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St Paul, Camden Square, Camden
A combined hall, offices and worship area built in the 1950s to replace a church destroyed in WW2. The worship area is a small area at one end, it can be opened out into the hall. The window is made up from sections of a window in the old church.
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St Aloysius, Phoenix Road, Somers Town (Roman Catholic)
Round the corner from Euston Station, this is a church of 1966-67 by John Newton of Burles, Newton & Partners. It replaced a church of 1808 damaged in WW2.
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Emmanuel, Lyncroft Gardens, West Hampstead
At the north end of the shopping area, a large church by J.A. Thomas of Whitfield & Thomas. The chancel and 4 bays of the nave from 1897-98, the rest done in 1903.
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St Anne, Laxton Place, Euston (Demolished)
Opposite the east end of St Mary Magdalene, Munster Square, a small circular church of 1970 by Scott and Jaques replacing a 1930s building. It was disused for some years as a Roman Catholic church but was latterly used by an Ethiopian Orthodox congregation. It was demolished and replaced by a new secular building in 2019 .
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All Hallows, Savernake Road, Gospel Oak
Possibly the best James Brooks church (though unfinished) dating from 1889-1901.The chancel was added 1913-15 by Giles Gilbert Scott, but the nave vault was never built, hence the cut off springer arches on each column.
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St Martin, Gospel Oak
A classic eccentric low church design by E.B. Lamb dating from 1864-65. It features one of his marvellously complex wooden roof constructions over a very wide crossing.The tower pinnacles were restored in 2014, I have left one older exterior picture for comparison.
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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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London Churches in photographs 