A Commissioners' church is an Anglican church in the United Kingdom built with money voted by Parliament as a result of the Church Building Act 1818, and subsequent related Acts. Such churches have been given a number of titles, including "Commissioners' Churches", "Waterloo Churches" and "Million Act Churches". In some cases the Commissioners provided the full cost of the new church; in other cases they provided a grant and the balance was raised locally. This list contains the Commissioners' churches in the East of England and in South East England.
Grade | Criteria[1] | |||||||||||||
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Grade I | Buildings of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important. | |||||||||||||
Grade II* | Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. | |||||||||||||
Grade II | Buildings of national importance and special interest. | |||||||||||||
"—" denotes a work that is not graded. |
Name and location | Photograph | Date | Grant in £ | Architect | Notes and refs. | Grade | |
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St Paul, Southsea, Hampshire | 1820–22 | 16,869 | Francis Goodwin | Gothic Revival with four turrets. Bombed about 1941; demolished. | |||
St John the Divine, Chatham, Kent 51.3823°N 0.5224°W | 1821–22 | 13,797 | Robert Smirke | Neoclassical Doric with a tower. Closed in 2004. | |||
St Mary the Virgin, Bransgore, Hampshire 50.7766°N -1.7302°W | 1822 | 2,649 | Joseph Hannaford | Gothic Revival with a tower. Chancel added 1873. | |||
St George, Ramsgate, Kent 51.3361°N 1.4178°W | 1824–27 | 9,000 | Henry Hemsley | Gothic Revival with a west tower. Restored in 1884 and again in 1946. | |||
Holy Trinity, Margate, Kent | 1825–28 | 10,000 | William Edmunds | Gothic Revival with a tower. Bombed and demolished. | |||
St Peter, Brighton, East Sussex 50.8285°N -0.1348°W | 1826–28 | 4,858 | Charles Barry | Gothic Revival with a west tower. Chancel added 1906. | |||
Holy Trinity, Maidstone, Kent 51.275°N 0.5257°W | 1826–28 | 7,373 | John Whichcord | Neoclassical Doric with a tower and steeple. Converted. | |||
Holy Trinity, Tunbridge Wells, Kent 51.1328°N 0.2622°W | 1827–29 | 8,059 | Decimus Burton | Gothic Revival with a west tower. | |||
St John, Forton, Hampshire | 1829–30 | 3,731 | Benjamin Bramble | Gothic Revival with a bell turret. Replaced in 1890. | |||
All Saints, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire 50.8049°N -1.0861°W | 1825–27 | 13,682 | Jacob Owen | Gothic Revival with a bell turret. Bombed and restored. | |||
Holy Trinity, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire 51.6922°N -0.0337°W | 1831–32 | 1,783 | Edward Blore | Gothic Revival with a belfry. Chancel added 1913. Renamed Christ Church. | II | ||
St Peter, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk 52.6029°N 1.7309°W | 1831–33 | 5,755 | Joseph John Scoles | Gothic Revival in brick with a tower. Now Greek Orthodox. | |||
Holy Trinity, Dover, Kent | 1833–35 | 3,556 | William Edmunds | Gothic Revival with a two turrets and spires. Demolished. | |||
Holy Trinity, Sheerness, Kent 51.4398°N 0.7638°W | 1835–36 | 2,595 | George Ledwell Taylor | Gothic Revival in brick with a tower. | |||
Christ Church, Brighton, East Sussex | 1837–38 | 500 | George Cheesman | Gothic Revival with an east tower and spire. Demolished. | |||
Christ Church, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire 52.2079°N 0.1334°WD | 1837–39 | 500 | Ambrose Poynter | Tudor Revival in brick with two west turrets. | |||
St Mary, Portsmouth, Hampshire | 1838 | 1,003 | Thomas Ellis Owen | Gothic Revival with a tower. Demolished about 1888. | |||
St John, Brighton, East Sussex 50.8239°N -0.1315°W | 1838–39 | 1,000 | George Cheesman | Neoclassical Doric style. Now Greek Orthodox Church. | |||
Holy Trinity, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire | 1839–40 | 1,086 | A. F. Livesay | Gothic Revival with a bell turret. In ruins. | |||
St Paul, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire 52.1976°N 0.1294°W | 1840–41 | 300 | Ambrose Poynter | Tudor Revival in brick with a west tower. Chancel added 1864; transepts in 1893. | |||
St James, Milton, Hampshire | 1840–41 | 150 | A. F. Livesay | Norman Revival with a bell turret. Replaced in 1913. | |||
Holy Trinity, Coates, Cambridgeshire 52.5626°N -0.0758°W | 1841 | 250 | James William Wild | Norman Revival in brick with a northeast tower. Aisles added in 1874 and 1890. | |||
Holy Trinity, Halstead, Essex 51.9434°N 0.6296°W | 1843–44 | 500 | George Gilbert Scott and William Moffatt | Gothic Revival with a southwest tower and spire. | |||
St Peter, Southampton, Hampshire 50.9091°N -1.4108°W | 1843–44 | 350 | Owen Carter | Norman Revival with a tower and spire. Redundant since 1981. | |||
St Thomas, West Hyde, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire 51.6148°N -0.5115°W | 1844 | 300 | Thomas Smith | Norman Revival with a turret. | |||
Holy Trinity, Milton, Kent | 1844–45 | 600 | James Wilson | Gothic Revival style. | |||
Holy Trinity, Oxford, Oxfordshire | 1844–45 | 300 | Henry Underwood | Gothic Revival with a bell turret. | |||
St John the Evangelist, King's Lynn, Norfolk | 1845–46 | 500 | Anthony Salvin | Gothic Revival with a tower. Bombed; demolished. | |||
St Paul, Brighton, East Sussex 50.822°N -0.1446°W | 1846–48 | 1,000 | Richard Cromwell Carpenter | Gothic Revival with a tower. Spire added 1874; narthex 1887. | |||
St James, Gravesend, Kent | 1848–52 | 200 | Samuel Daukes | Gothic Revival with towers. Demolished 1968. | |||
All Saints', Hockerill, Hertfordshire | 1850–51 | 160 | George Pritchett | Gothic Revival style. Burnt down in 1935 and replaced in 1936.[2] | |||
Christ Church, South Banbury, Oxfordshire | 1851–52 | 350 | Benjamin Ferrey | Gothic Revival with a tower and spire. Steeple added 1880. Demolished. | |||
All Saints, Leavesden, Watford, Hertfordshire 51.6955°N -0.3884°W | 1852–53 | 125 | George Gilbert Scott | Gothic Revival style. Additions in 1920. | |||
St John the Baptist, Hove, East Sussex 50.8269°N -0.1649°W | 1853 | 5 | William and Edward Habershon | Gothic Revival style. Tower and spire added 1859. | |||
St Luke, Southampton, Hampshire 50.9139°N -1.3982°W | 1853 | 250 | John Elliott | Gothic Revival with a turret. Now a Sikh temple. | |||
Holy Trinity, Winchester, Hampshire 51.0648°N -1.3112°W | 1853 | 300 | Henry Woodyer | Gothic Revival with a turret. | |||
St Paul, Chatham, Kent | 1853–54 | 300 | Alexander Gough | Norman Revival with a tower. Restored 1890, demolished. | |||
Christ Church, Lee Park, Kent | 1853–54 | 5 | George Gilbert Scott | Gothic Revival style. Steeple added 1877. Demolished. | |||
Christ Church, Milton, Kent | 1854–56 | 125 | Richard Cromwell Carpenter | Gothic Revival with a central tower. Enlarged 1870. Replaced 1934. | |||
Christ Church, Northam, Southampton | 1855–56 | 175 | Alfred Lock and John Duckett | Gothic Revival in brick. Demolished about 1890. | |||