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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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Most Holy Redeemer and St Thomas Moore, Cheyne Row, Chelsea (Roman Catholic)
Hidden away south of Kings Road this is a church of 1895 by George Goldie.
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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 John the Evangelist, Ladbroke Crescent/Ladbroke Grove
On top of the hill in the centre of the Ladbroke Estate between Ladbroke Grove and Notting Hill. It is a church of 1844 by J.H. Stevens and G.Alexander.
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St Helen, St Helen’s Gardens, North Kensington
1954-56 by Sebastian Comper a complex of church, hall and vicarage replacing a church lost in WW2. The glass and organ case are by Ninian Comper.
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All Saints, Talbot Road, Notting Hill
Built 1852-61 and designed by William White. The tall tower was planned to be surmounted by a spire but this was found to be impossible due to ground conditions. War time damage was repaired by Milner & Craze in 1951. Currently (Dec 2025) the Lady Chapel cannot be used due to unsafe masonry. There is work by Martin Travers and Ninian Comper, some from St Columb which is now a Serbian Orthodox church.
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 Cuthbert, Philbeach Gardens, Earls Court
At the apex of a Crescent near Earls Court Station. This is a centre of Anglo-Catholicism built in 1884-88 by H. Roumieu Gough. The interior has many arts and crafts fittings (e.g. lectern, altar rails, clock, royal arms) of 1897-1910 by W. Bainbridge Reynolds, together with a huge reredos of 1913-14 by Gilbert Boulton to designs by Ernest Geldart. The Lady Chapel has post-WW2 glass by Hugh Easton. Much of the interior wall decoration in the church was undertaken by members of Guilds founded by the church. The stained glass in the nave and clerestory is largely by C.E, Tute, that in the Baptistry by Kempe. The Stations of the Cross were painted by Franz Vinck in 1888. The Lady Chapel reredos, pulpit sounding board and an external Calvary were designed by J. Harold Gibbons. As there is so much to see the images are organised in a number of galleries.
Exterior and General Interior Views
Nave Decoration and Clerestory Statues
Chancel
Lady Chapel
Baptistry
Nave and Clerestory Stained Glass
Fittings and Furnishings
Stations of the Cross
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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London Churches in photographs 