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All Saints Chapel, Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road, Chelsea
Not far from the main entrance in the hospital building it was built between 1889-1892.
Chapel, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, Chelsea
A small chapel on the second floor of the Sydney Wing, a 1980s part of the hospital, designed by Watkins Gray International. It replaced the Chapel of St Luke by E.B. Lamb built in 1849-1850 which was closed in 1991 and converted to housing as part of the Rose Square development.
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.
Oratory of St Philip Neri (Brompton Oratory), Brompton Road, Kensington (Roman Catholic)
A very large baroque church in front of and to one side of Holy Trinity, Brompton. Its designer Herbert Gribble won the commission in competition and the church was built in 1884. After he died the main steel-framed dome was built to an altered design by George Sherrin and E.A. Rickards in 1896. The other domes are concrete framed. Many British and Italian artists contributed decoration to the ornate interior from its construction into the 1930s
Christ Church, 18 Montpelier Place, Knightsbridge (German Lutheran Church)
Lying between Knightsbridge and Hyde Park, this is a church of 1904 designed by Edward Boehmer and Charles Rees for Baron von Schröder. The congregation had previously been worshipping in the Queen’s Chapel up to 1901 and since 1683.
St Sarkis, Iverna Gardens, Kensington (Armenian Apostolic Orthodox)
Hidden away behind a small garden square near Kensington High Street Station. It was built in 1923 to designs by Arthur Davis of Mewes and Davis and funded by Calouste Gulbenkian. Small matching additions were made in 1937 and 1950.
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Holy Trinity, Sloane Square, Chelsea
“The Cathedral of the Arts and Crafts Movement”. Built 1888-90 by J.D. Sedding. WW2 bombing meant that the vault of 1959 by Michael Farey is plaster.The huge east window is by Morris & Co with figures designed by Burne Jones and backgrounds by Morris.
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St John, Kings Road, Chelsea
Up steep steps above some shops, this is a church of 1973 by Henry Cadbury Brown & Partners.
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Our Lady of Dolours, Fulham Road (Roman catholic)
The tower is all that can be seen from Fulham Road, this fronts a long passage of 1880 that leads to a narthex of 1894 by C.A. Hansom that was added to the church of 1874-86 by J.A. Hansom.
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London Churches in photographs 