St Michael and All Angels Church, Barnes explained

St Michael and All Angels Church, Barnes

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Location:

Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

Country:

United Kingdom

Denomination:

Church of England

Founded Date:

1867 (congregation); 1891 (building)

Functional Status:

Active

Architect:

Charles Innes

Completed Date:

1893

Deanery:

Richmond & Barnes

Archdeaconry:

Wandsworth

Diocese:

Southwark

Vicar:

Fr Stephen Stavrou

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Designation1 Offname:	Church of St Michael and All Angels
Designation1:	Grade II
Designation1 Date:	29 September 2000
Designation1 Number:	1389297

St Michael and All Angels Church is a Grade II listed Church of England church in Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is located at 39 Elm Bank Gardens, London SW13 0NX.

History

The congregation, founded in 1867, initially met in a building in Archway Street that combined a school and a church. A temporary tin tabernacle was erected next to the school in 1878.^[1]

The current building was erected in 1891–93. The architect was Charles Innes,^[2] a member of the congregation,^[1] who also designed the additions to the nave, chancel and north aisle of St Mary's Church, Barnes.^[3]

A vestry, in a matching style, was added in 1936.

Barbara Pym

The novelist Barbara Pym lived in Barnes from 1949 to 1961.^[4] She worshipped at St Michael's, and was a member of the Parochial Church Council.^[5] London Anglo-Catholic churches feature prominently in Pym's novels, and St Michael's is the model for the church in her 1955 novel Less Than Angels, where Pym describes High Mass on Whitsunday:^[6] ^[7]

Notable clergy

Joe Hawes, later Dean of St Edmundsbury, served as priest-in-charge, and then team vicar, from 1996 to 2003
Bruce Ruddock, later Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome, served as priest-in-charge from 1988 to 1995

External links

Official website

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Notes and References

Web site: History . St Michael’s and All Angels Church . 12 January 2014.
Book: The Buildings of England – London 2: South . . . 1983 . London . 469 . 0-14-0710-47-7.
Web site: Innes, Charles G D . Barnes and Mortlake History Society . Local architects . 5 April 2015.
Holt, Hazel, A Lot to Ask: A Life of Barbara Pym, (1990: Cardinal), pp 156 and 184-186.
Smith, Robert, "Exploring London churches with Barbara Pym", in Bell, Hazel K (Ed), No Soft Incense: Barbara Pym and the Church, (2004: Barbara Pym Society), pp 14-16 at p 14.
[Barbara Pym|Pym, Barbara]
DSCR was code for D: daily celebration of the Eucharist; S: Sung Eucharist on Sundays; C: Confessions; and R: Reservation of the Blessed Sacrament. Charles, Kate, "A mini-history of Anglo-Catholicism", in Bell, Hazel K (Ed), No Soft Incense: Barbara Pym and the Church, (2004: Barbara Pym Society), pp 17-18 at p 18.