St Chad's Church, Haggerston Explained

St Chad's, Haggerston
Fullname:Church of St Chad, Dunloe Street
Location:Dunloe Street, Haggerston, London Borough of Hackney
Country:England
Coordinates:51.5317°N -0.0733°W
Denomination:Anglican
Churchmanship:Anglo-Catholic
Website:stchadhaggerston.org.uk
Dedication:Chad of Mercia
Status:Parish church
Functional Status:Active
Architect:James Brooks
Style:Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking:1867
Completed Date:1869
Construction Cost:£7,500[1]
Materials:red brick, Bath stone, slate roofs
Parish:St Chad Haggerston[2]
Benefice:Haggerston (St Chad)[3]
Archdeaconry:Hackney
Diocese:London
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Designation1:Grade I Listed Building
Designation1 Offname:Church of St Chad
Designation1 Date:3 January 1950
Designation1 Number:1265793

St Chad's, Haggerston, located on Dunloe Street in Haggerston, is an urban Anglican parish church in the diocese of London, England. Built to designs by architect James Brooks and completed in 1869 as part of the Haggerston Church Scheme, the Grade I Listed church was united with the parish of St Mary, Haggerston in 1953,[4] following the destruction of that church in an air raid in 1941. St Chad's has a historical association with High Church liturgy and Anglo-Catholicism.[5] [6] [7]

History

In 1862, the Shoreditch and Haggerston Church Extension Fund was started.[6] The district of St Chad was created in 1863,[8] with a committee formed for the erection of the church for the new parish holding its first meeting in January 1864.[9] Construction was begun in 1867,[10] and St Chad's was consecrated on April 4, 1869. At its design and completion, St Chad's was situated on the north-east corner of Nichols Square, a poor residential area consisting principally of terraced housing. Brooks also designed and built the adjacent vicarage, circa 1870, which is Grade II* listed.

Nichols Square was demolished in 1963 to create the Fellows Court Estate. In 1970, the church of St Augustine's, Yorkton Street (also built as part of the Haggerston Church Scheme), closed and its parish, which had sustained bombing in the war and subsequent demolition, was incorporated into the parish of St Chad's.

Architecture

Interior

Brooks designed the furniture and liturgical furnishings of several of his landmark East London churches.[11] At St Chad's, he designed the reredos, which was carved by Thomas Earp, and the pulpit, and may have been responsible for further details including the rood screen.[12] The clerestory and rose windows are plainly glazed, but there are several stained glass windows by eminent English designers and manufacturers Clayton and Bell, who were responsible for the three large-scale single figures in the apse[13] – depicting a Christ in Majesty, flanked by windows with Mary as the Blessed Virgin, and St Chad, the church's patron saint.[14]

Present day

St Chad's is an active Anglican parish church under the alternative episcopal oversight of the Bishop of Fulham, and is in the deanery of Hackney, in the Diocese of London.[15] The building is on Historic England's 'Heritage at Risk Register',[16] a programme for identifying for safeguarding significant historical sites at risk of loss.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Transactions of the St. Paul's Ecclesiological Society. Alabaster, Passmore, and Sons. 1881. 1. London. 20424286M. 12 February 2022.
  2. Web site: S Chad Haggerston (Church Heritage Record 623100). 2 February 2022. Church of England Online Faculty System. Archbishops' Council.
  3. Web site: The Benefice of Haggerston (St Chad). 10 February 2022. Crockford's Clerical Directory. Church House Publishing.
  4. Web site: S. Mary with S. Chad, Haggerston Parish Magazines 1868 - 1965. Hackney Archives. 10 February 2022. Hackney London Borough Council.
  5. Reed. John Shelton. 1988. 'Ritualism Rampant in East London': Anglo-Catholicism and the Urban Poor. Victorian Studies. Indiana University Press. 31. 3. 375–403. 3828097. JSTOR. free.
  6. Book: Leonard, John. London's Parish Churches. Spire Books. 2011. 978-1-904965-33-6. Oxford. 252; 254–257; 274. The Victorian era: Gothic triumphant.
  7. Book: Walford, Edward. Old and New London: Volume 5. British History Online. Cassell, Petter & Galpin. 1878. London. 505–524. The northern suburbs: Haggerston and Hackney.
  8. Web site: London Gazette, Order in Council constituting districts of St Columba, St Chad and St Augustine, Haggerston.. The National Archives. London Metropolitan Archives.
  9. Web site: Committee for erection of St Chad's Church: minute book. The National Archives. London Metropolitan Archives.
  10. Hitchcock. Henry-Russell. September 1957. High Victorian Gothic. Victorian Studies. 10 February 2022. Indiana University Press. 1. 1. 63. 3825515. JSTOR. free.
  11. Web site: Person: Brooks, James. 11 February 2022. V&A Collections Archive. Victoria and Albert Museum.
  12. Web site: 4 February 1975. Church of St Chad. 11 February 2022. Historic England. English Heritage.
  13. Book: Pevsner. Nikolaus. Cherry. Bridget. London 4: North. Yale University Press. 1988. 0-300-09653-4. The Buildings of England. New Haven & London. 2002. 60; 516; 519. English. Shoreditch: Religious Buildings.
  14. Book: Bumpus, Thomas Francis. London Churches: Ancient and Modern. T. Werner Laurie. 1908. Classical & Modern. 2. Clifford's Inn, London. 132; 280–282; 286–293. English. London Churches: Shoreditch and Haggerston; St Columba's and St Chad's.
  15. Web site: S Chad, Haggerston. A Church Near You. en. 10 February 2022. Archbishops' Council.
  16. Web site: Church of St Chad, Dunloe Street, Hackney E2 - Hackney. 10 February 2022. Heritage at Risk Register. Historic England.

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