St Barnabas Bethnal Green

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St Barnabas Bethnal Green
Church of St Barnabas Bethnal Green
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St Barnabas Bethnal Green
LocationGrove Road, Bow, Tower Hamlets, London E3 5TG
Country United Kingdom
Denomination Church of England
Website www.stbarnabasbethnalgreen.org
Administration
Diocese London
Archdeaconry Hackney
Deanery Tower Hamlets
Interior of the church St Barnabas, Grove Road, Bethnal Green - East end (geograph 5618257).jpg
Interior of the church
The Four Evangelists by Don Potter on St Barnabas Bethnal Green St Barnabas ext Donald Potter cross.jpg
The Four Evangelists by Don Potter on St Barnabas Bethnal Green

St Barnabas Bethnal Green is a late 19th-century church in Bow [1] in London, England. It is an Anglican church in the Diocese of London. [2] The church is at the junction of Roman Road and Grove Road in the Bow West ward of London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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History of the building

In 1865 there was an Anglican mission called St Luke's run by the nearby church of St Simon Zelotes, [3] but the current St Barnabas building began life as the Baptist Union Church. [4]

It was built in 1865, to a design by William Wigginton, in a Gothic Revival style, in yellow brick, banded with red and black. The church building, which is not oriented, was built with a broad chancel, nave, west gallery and an octagonal south west tower with a spire.

The church was sold to the Church of England in 1868, [5] and in 1870 consecrated for the Church of England by John Jackson the Bishop of London, [6] with a district assigned from the parishes of St James the Less and St Simon Zelotes. [7]

In 1876 a large brick vicarage was built south of the Roman Road. It was first inhabited by George Barnes, vicar from 1870-1902, President of Sion College in 1887 and rural dean of Spitalfields 1898-1901. [8]

The church was badly damaged by bombing during the Second World War. [9] Following the end of the war the steeple was removed and the church rebuilt, retaining the tower and north and south walls. [9] This remodelling was carried out by J Anthony Lewis of architects Michael Tapper & Lewis, who commissioned the sculptor Don Potter to create "The Four Evangelists" on the outside of the building (c.1957). [10] Potter also created a font in Clipsham stone. [11] [12] In 1957 a two-manual electric Jennings organ was installed in the restored church. [13] A plaque in the church states that the restored church was rededicated on 18 June 1957 by the Bishop of London.

Before 1965 St Barnabas was in the Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.

St Barnabas is part of the Bow Group of Anglican churches, together with Bow Church (St Mary and Holy Trinity); St Paul's, Bow Common; St Paul's, Old Ford and All Hallows, Bow. [14]

School

St Barnabas National School (formally St Luke's) was based in a Gothic building at the junction of Roman Road and Lanfranc Road. It was founded in 1866 and was also used as a mission church. It closed in 1905 and was converted into a church institute. [15]

Priests of the church

A notice within the church gives the following names and dates of priests of St Barnabas.

Activities

The PCC of St Barnabas Bethnal Green has been affiliated to the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement since 2006 [19] and is only the second congregation to have affiliated as a body. [20]

From 2003 to 2012,[ citation needed ] the church played a key role in St Barnabas Community Fete (also known as Bowstock), whose director was the church's vicar, Father Brian Ralph. [21]

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  2. ↑ "St Barnabas Bethnal Green, Bow". The Church of England . Retrieved 20 September 2012.
  3. ↑ "Bethnal Green: List of Churches". British History Online. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
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  5. ↑ "Records of the Victoria Park Baptist Church". The National Archives. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  6. ↑ An inscription on a cornerstone states that the church was consecrated on 2 July 1870.
  7. ↑ "Bethnal Green: List of Churches". British History Online. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  8. ↑ "Bethnal Green: List of Churches". British History Online. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  9. 1 2 "Bethnal Green: List of Churches". A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green. 1998. pp. 217–26.
  10. ↑ Light, Vivienne (2002). Don Potter: an inspiring century. Brook, New Forest, Hampshire: Canterton Books. p. 166, note 9: 'Don received several London commissions from the architect, Anthony Lewis.'. ISBN   0-9541627-1-4.
  11. ↑ Light (2002), p.166
  12. ↑ Lewis and Don Potter also worked on St Matthew Bethnal Green.
  13. ↑ "Jennings Organs, 1957". Vox AC30. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  14. ↑ "Independent Examiner's Report to the PCC of St Paul and St Mark Old Ford". Charity Commission for England and Wales. 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
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