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Building    From 1940 

Church House - Westminster

Categories: Religion

Church House - Westminster

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 : 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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Other Subjects

St Mary Matfelon Whitechapel

St Mary Matfelon Whitechapel

1250-1286: The first church was built on this site as a chapel of ease (meaning not the main parish church) in the parish of Stepney.  The ‘White Chapel’ was constructed from Kentish chalk rubble a...

Building, Religion

3 memorials
Mrs Robinson Whittaker

Mrs Robinson Whittaker

This lady is surely the wife of the Rev. Robinson Whittaker of the London Mission. From a 1940 edition of "The War Cry": At a meeting in Rivercourt Church, Hammersmith: "The Rev. Robinson Whittake...

Person, Religion

1 memorial
Bagley's Foundry / The Foundery

Bagley's Foundry / The Foundery

There was a gun-manufacturing foundry at Windmill Hill, now Tabernacle Street EC2, until an explosion on 10 May 1716. Captured French guns were being melted and the liquid metal was poured into mou...

Building, Engineering, Religion

2 memorials
Sir Moses Montefiore

Sir Moses Montefiore

Philanthropist and Jewish leader. Born Italy, brought up in London. Married into the Rothschild family.

Person, Philanthropy, Religion, Israel/Palestine, Italy

1 memorial
Francois Rabelais

Francois Rabelais

Writer and physician. Born France, between 1483 and 1494, but probably November 1494. Became a monk and studied Latin and Greek, then left to study medicine. Died Paris.

Person, Literature, Medicine, Politics & Administration, Religion, France

1 memorial