St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge

32 Wilton Place, Knightsbridge, London

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, KNIGHTSBRIDGE

KNIGHTSBRIDGE, lONDON

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"The church was founded in 1843, the first in London to champion the ideals of the Oxford Movement, during the incumbency of the Reverend W. J. E. Bennett. The architect was Thomas Cundy the younger.^[2]

:American heiress Jennie Churchill married British aristocrat George Cornwallis-West in this church.^[3] Albert Basil Orme Wilberforce married his wife, Charlotte Langford, here in 1865.^[4]

"A memorial in St Paul's Church commemorates 52 members of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry who died on active service in World War II, carrying out secret intelligence work for the Special Operations Executive in occupied countries as well as providing transport drivers for the ATS. It includes three holders of the George Cross.^[5]

"St Paul's sister-parish is the Church of St. Paul's, K street, in Washington, DC in the United States.

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"After the building's consecration in 1843 the chancel with its rood screen and striking reredos was added in 1892 by the noted church architect George Frederick Bodley who also decorated St Luke's Chapel, which stands in the place of a Lady Chapel to the south of the sanctuary; the Lady Chapel of St Paul's having been traditionally seen as being the church of St Mary's, Bourne Street.

"The tiled panels around the walls of the nave, created in the 1870s by Daniel Bell, depict scenes from the life of Jesus Christ. The Stations of the Cross that intersperse the tiled panels, painted in the early 1920s by Gerald Moira, show scenes from the Crucifixion story. The font dates from 1842 and is carved with biblical scenes from both the Old and New Testaments. There are statues of the Virgin and Child (1896) above the entrance to the Chapel, and of St Paul (1902) above the lectern.^[6]"(Link)

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Photos: Taken in November 2020 by Richard Wilson while living and 

                  working in London, England.

Link:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Church,_Knightsbridge

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God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)

                                       St.  Bride's Church,Door

ST. BRIDE'S CHURCH

FLEET STREET

CITY OF LONDON, ENGLAND

                   

                                                 Sanctuary, Center Aisle

"HE CHURCH of St Bride's is justly world famous. To enter its doors is to step into 2,000 years of history, which had begun with the Romans some six centuries before the name of St Bride, daughter of an Irish prince, even emerged from legend to become associated forever with the site.

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"The story of St Bride's is inextricably woven into the history of the City of London. By the time the Great Fire of 1666 left the church in ruins, a succession of churches had existed on the site for about a millennium, and the area had already assumed its unique role in the emergence of English printing. It took nine years for St Bride's to re-appear from the ashes under the inspired direction of Christopher Wren, but for the next two-and-a-half centuries it was in the shadow of the church's unmistakeable wedding-cake spire that the rise of the British newspaper industry into the immensely-powerful Fourth Estate took place.

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"Then, in 1940, St Bride's fell victim once again to flames as German incendiary bombs reduced Wren's architectural jewel to a roofless shell. This time 17 years elapsed before rebuilding was completed, although a series of important excavations in 1953 amid the skeletal ruins, led by the medieval archaeologist Professor W. F. Grimes, came up with extraordinary results, uncovering the foundations of all six previous churches on the site.

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"Not only the nation, but the Christian world as a whole, was fascinated by the discovery."(Link)                       

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Photos-Taken in November 2020  by Richard Wilson while living and  working in the UK on an ancestor's visa

LINK-http://stbrides.com/history/index.html

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God, be with persecuted Christians throughout the world. Amen (SW.)