Holy Trinity Church, Rotherhithe

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Holy Trinity Church
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Holy Trinity Church, Rotherhithe
51°30′02″N0°02′05″W / 51.50048°N 0.03473°W / 51.50048; -0.03473
CountryEngland
Denomination Church of England
History
Statusactive
Dedicated1957
Architecture
Architect(s) Thomas Ford
Administration
Diocese Southwark
Episcopal area Woolwich
Archdeaconry Southwark
Parish Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe
Clergy
Vicar(s) Fr Andrew Doyle
Laity
Director of music Louise Bishop
Churchwarden(s) Angela Samuels and Church Warden

Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church in Rotherhithe, south east London, within the diocese of Southwark.

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History

The original church on the site was built between 1837 and 1838, as the expansion of the Surrey Commercial Docks drove a growth of population that exhausted the capacity of the original parish of St Mary's Church, Rotherhithe. The building was designed in a neo-Gothic style by Sampson Kempthorne, [1] better known as a designer of workhouses:

The church consists of a shallow sanctuary recess and a wide barn-like nave with vestibules and a tower at the west. The nave is lit by large lancet windows and the whole church is meanly designed in 13th-century style. The tower has an embattled parapet. [2]

The churchyard was closed to burials in 1858, and was converted by the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association into a small public garden in 1885. [3]

The original church building was destroyed by incendiary bombs during an air raid on 7 September 1940, making it the first British Church to be destroyed in the Second World War. The bombed church had an organ by Henry Bevington. [4] The Vicar throughout the War was the Rev Joseph Thrift. On the night of the bombing, Thrift escaped with just the clothes on his back. He made sure that all around were safely away, before making his way from the burning remains of the church by rowing-boat to Stepney, bombs falling around him as he went. [5] After the bombing, Thrift advertised in the Church Times: "Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe. Church bombed and everything destroyed. Can you supply one of our immediate needs?" [6] The adjacent school buildings (already condemned in 1939) [7] survived the War, were used for services until the completion of the present church in 1959, and remain in use as the Church Hall. The WWI war memorial also survived the bombing, and is now Grade II listed. [8]

The new church building was constructed to a 1957 design by Thomas Ford, and features a distinctive mural of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus by the Jewish-born German artist Hans Feibusch. [9]

The church has been described as having a fine acoustic, and since 2016 has hosted regular concerts of music written in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by early music ensemble Musica Antica Rotherhithe. [10]

Vicars

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References

  1. ↑ "Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe: The Church building" . Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  2. ↑ Malden, H.E. (ed.), Parishes: Rotherhithe', in A History of the County of Surrey, Vol. 4, 83-92 (London: Victoria County History, 1912)
  3. ↑ "London Gardens Trust: Holy Trinity Churchyard" . Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  4. ↑ "National Pipe Organ Register: N16169" . Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  5. ↑ "Church Times: "Canon Joseph Thrift", 17 July 1959, p 11" . Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  6. ↑ "Church Times, 4 July 1941, p 381" . Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  7. ↑ "Church Times: "Canon Joseph Thrift", 17 July 1959, p 11" . Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  8. ↑ "National Heritage List Entry No 1449951" . Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  9. ↑ "Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe: The mural" . Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  10. ↑ "Music: Cavalli and Rossi (Musica Antica Rotherhithe)" . Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  11. ↑ Beck, Edward Josselyn, Memorials to Serve for A History of the Parish of St Mary, Rotherhithe, (1907: CUP), p 81. Hutchinson's incumbency is sometimes given as having started in 1838, which is the date of the opening of the first church, but the parish was created two years earlier.
  12. ↑ Beck, Edward Josselyn, Memorials to Serve for A History of the Parish of St Mary, Rotherhithe, (1907: CUP), p 82.
  13. ↑ Beck, Edward Josselyn, Memorials to Serve for A History of the Parish of St Mary, Rotherhithe, (1907: CUP), p 82.
  14. ↑ Clergy List, 1896, p 393.
  15. ↑ "Maxey Church: Vicars" . Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  16. ↑ "Bell's Cathedrals of England" . Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  17. ↑ "Church Times: Church News, 25 September 1914, p 313" . Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  18. ↑ "Church Times: Church News, 13 November 1914, p 493" . Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  19. ↑ "Church Times: "Clerical Obituary", 17 June 1959, p 13" . Retrieved 23 January 2021.Crockford's (https://www.crockford.org.uk/places/21031/the-benefice-of-rotherhithe-(holy-trinity)) states that George Hickman was Vicar 1945-50, but this is an error: he was Vicar of St Barnabas's, Rotherhithe.
  20. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th Edition, p 60.
  21. ↑ "Crockford's Clerical Directory: Benefice of Holy Trinity, Rotherhithe" . Retrieved 23 January 2021.
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