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St Paul, Grove Park Road, Chiswick

Grove Park is a Victorian suburb south of Chiswick railway station.  This church was designed by H. Currey and built in 1872. The apse stained glass is by M.E. Aldrich Rope.

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 

St Michael and All Angels, Bath Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick

Bedford Park is an early garden suburb and this church dating from 1879-80 is one of its landmark buildings. The architect was Richard Norman Shaw. In 1887 a matching hall and north aisle were added by Maurice Adams.

 
   
   
   
   
   
   
    
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 

Our Lady of Grace and St Edward, Chiswick High Road, Chiswick (Roman Catholic)

In the middle of the town centre, a large very red building of 1904 by Kelly and Birchall. The tower was added by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1930.

 
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Christ Church, Turnham Green, Chiswick

Set in the middle of Turnham Green a little way off the main road, this is an early Gilbert Scott building, in fact by Scott and Moffatt and dating from 1841-43.  A longer chancel was added by James Brooks in 1887. The nave interior has been divided in two with only the chancel retaining older furnishings.

  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 

St Michael and St Martin, Bath Road, Hounslow

Just west of the town centre, this is a church of 1928-29 by George Drysdale.

                 
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
   

St Paul, Bath Road, Hounslow West

Alongside the main road into Hounslow, it dates from 1873-74 and was designed by Habershon and Pite. It closed in 2011 but reopened in 2012 as a plant supported by several other churches. The interior has been subdivided with the aisles partitioned off and a mezzanine floor over much of the nave.

 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 

St Mary and Pope Kyrillos VI (Formerly All Saints CofE), Broad Walk, Hounslow West (Coptic Orthodox)

In a suburban road off the Great South Western Road. It was built as an Anglican hall/church in 1938 by Seely and Paget but was made redundant in 2004, there was some community use  until 2006 when demolition was proposed, with replacement by housing.It survived and  is now a Coptic Orthodox church, consecrated in 2017 with extensions added at right angles.

 
   
   
 

Our Lady & St Christopher, High Street, Cranford (Roman Catholic)

Behind the presbytery which is next door to Holy Angels, the Anglican church. This is a building of 1969-71 by Gerard Goalen.

        
   
   
   
 

Holy Angels, High Street, Cranford

A replacement for two earlier churches on the main Bath Road. This church is in the centre of the village, designed by Norman Haines and built in 1970. It is in the same parish as St Dunstan in Cranford Park over the border in London Borough of Hillingdon. The church is a large, tall open space with a separate Lady Chapel behind a glass screen to one side.

    
   
 
   
   
   
   
   
 

The Good Shepherd, Beavers Lane, Hounslow West

A hall/church of 1956 designed by Michael Farey to serve the Beaver’s Lane Estate.