Building    From 1940 

Church House - Westminster

Categories: Religion

The Westminster site was first used for Anglican church meetings and administration in 1888. In 1891 - 1902 a new design for the whole site was partially built but never completed.

The current building is Listed. From the Listing text: Assembly Hall, chapel and offices. Built 1936-40 by Sir Herbert Baker and A.T. Scott for Church of England.

Facades on: Dean's Yard, Great Smith Street, Little Smith Street and Tufton Street. Used by Parliament and the United Nations during and after WW2.

The photo shows the assembly hall.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Church House - Westminster

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Church House - centenary

This tablet was unveiled by Her Majesty the Queen on 25th October 1988 to com...

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Church House - foundation stone

This foundation stone was placed here by Her Majesty Queen Mary, twentysixth ...

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Church House - opened

This building was opened by His Majesty King George VI accompanied by Her Maj...

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Clapham Sect

Clapham Sect

A group of evangelical Christians, who worshipped at Holy Trinity Church in Clapham and centred on William Wilberforce, who campaigned for the abolition of slavery and other religious, philanthropi...

Group, Philanthropy, Race Issues, Religion

4 memorials
John Bray

John Bray

From University of Manchester we learn that Bray was "a poor uneducated layman, possessed of a deep religious faith. A brazier by trade, his house in the district of the city known as Little Britai...

Person, Religion

1 memorial
Saint Vincent Pallotti

Saint Vincent Pallotti

Priest.  Born Rome.  Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, the Pallottine Fathers.  Canonized in 1963.  He suggested that St Peter’s should be built but we ar...

Person, Religion, Italy

1 memorial
J. R. Marr

J. R. Marr

Vicar of St Botolph's Aldgate in 1906.

Person, Religion

1 memorial
Rev. Evelyn Howard Morton

Rev. Evelyn Howard Morton

Rector of St Nicholas Tooting Graveney from 1893 until at least 1897, he was the eldest son of his predecessor in this role, Edward Howard Morton, rector 1880-1893. By 1897 Edward was retired in Bo...

Person, Religion

1 memorial