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Bayswater chapel, see St. Matthew.
St. Ambrose, see St. Mary Magdalene.
The existing church of ST. MARY, Paddington green, (fn. 69) was built under an Act of 1788, which authorized national collections and appointed 45 trustees, headed by Sir John Morshead and Robert Thistlethwayte. (fn. 70) A small building of yellow brick with white stone dressings, its plan is that of a Greek cross, whose square centre lies beneath a shallow dome carried by four columns and whose four short arms have low segmental vaults. The eastern arm forms a chancel, with a venetian window, and the other arms hold sections of a three-sided gallery. The south front forms the main façade, whose pedimented Tuscan portico is grander than the semicircular entrance porch to the west. A small clock tower and cupola surmount the dome. Designed by John Plaw, the church was begun in 1788 and consecrated in 1791, when it was widely admired. (fn. 71) It is notable as Plaw's only surviving building, apart from a house on Belle Isle (Westmld.). Restoration under Raymond Erith and Quinlan Terry was carried out in 1972-3, with money from the sale of the site of the town hall. Bodies in the vaults were reburied more compactly (fn. 72) and many original fittings were reinstated. The chief innovation was reflooring in coloured marbles and in York and Portland stone.
Emmanuel, Harrow Rd. Dist. formed 1886 from St. Jude and St. Peter. (fn. 134) Patron trustees. Attendance 1886: 280 a.m.; 362 evg.; 1902: 193 a.m.; 137 p.m. Bldg. of yellow brick with freestone and red-brick dressings in Early Eng. style, seating 626, by J. T. Lee 1885-6; chancel with N. vestries and S. organ chamber, aisled and clerestoried nave, W. narthex, low SW. tower with broach spire. Not oriented. Adjoining Burrage institute built 1886 and used for mission svces. by 1888, seating 500. (fn. 135) Attendance 1902: 27 a.m.; 50 p.m.
St. Peter, Elgin Ave. Dist. formed 1871 from Holy Trinity. (fn. 205) Patron trustees until c. 1905, Ch. Patronage Soc. (later Trust) by 1926. Attendance 1886: 604 a.m.; 578 p.m.; 1902: 456 a.m.; 472 p.m. Bldg. of Kentish rag with Bath stone dressings in mixed Gothic style, seating 940, by Newman & Billing 1867-70: apsidal chancel with N. vestry and S. organ chamber, transepts, aisled and clerestoried nave, tall SW. tower with pinnacles and short spire. Svces. only in crypt from 1971. Demol. 1975. New brick bldg. in contemporary style on part of site, adjoining flats and community centre, 1975-7. (fn. 206) Not oriented.
1. Westlake, St. Marg. Westm. 231.
2. Harvey, Westm. Abbey, 407-8.
3. Hennessy, Novum Rep. 367.
4. Ft. of F. Lond. & Mdx. i. 101.
5. W.A.M., Reg. Bk. i, f. 5v.
6. Rep. Com. Eccl. Revenues, 666.
7. Newcourt, Rep. i. 704.
8. Newcourt, Rep. i. 704.
11. Home Counties Mag. i. 222.
12. Robins, Paddington, 83; Guildhall MS. 12426.
13. Hennessy, Novum Rep. 369; Crockford (1977).
14. Tax. Eccl. (Rec. Com.), 17.
15. Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i. 413; Harvey, Westm. Abbey, 409.
16. Home Counties Mag. i. 222.
18. Newcourt, Rep. i. 704; 29 Chas. II, c. 8.
19. Robins, Paddington, 79, 93.
20. 34 & 35 Vic. c. 5 (Private).
21. The par. offrs.' share was £11 7s. in 1712 and £49 10d. in 1724: chwdns. acct. bk. (1656-1736), ff. 78, 107.
22. Robins, Paddington, 139; Booth, 'Archives', 181-5; vestry mins. 21 June, 4 Aug. 1796; 23 Mar. 1797; 27 June to 24 Dec. 1798.
23. Vestry mins. 20 Oct. 1809; 31 Dec. 1811.
24. Ibid. 17, 31 Dec. 1811; 7 Jan., 31 Mar. 1812 to 9 Jan. 1813.
25. P.R.O., HO 129/1/1/1/1; Rep. Com. Eccl. Revenues, 667.
26. Acts of P.C. 1581-2, 107.
27. Above, manors; Guildhall MS. 10464A, pp. 125, 130, 137.
28. Guildhall MSS. 9558, 9560.
29. Robins, Paddington, 141-3; 6 Geo. IV, c. 45 (Private).
30. Inf. from G.L.C. Hist. Bldgs. Div.
31. Ibid.; Robins, Paddington, 143; Lucas, Plan of Paddington (1842, 1855).
33. Alum. Cantab. to 1751, iv. 18; P.R.O., PROB 11/42 B (P.C.C. 14 Chaynay).
34. J. Strype, Life of John Aylmer (1821), 142.
35. D.N.B.; R. C. Bald, John Donne (1970), 311.
36. Mdx. County Rec. iii. 234; G.L.R.O., Cal. Mdx. Sess. Bks. 1652-7, 112, 116, 170.
37. Chwdns. acct. bk. (1656-1736), ff. 20, 27, 29, 31.
38. Alum. Cantab. to 1751, i. 53.
40. D.N.B.; Hennessy, Novum Rep. p. cxlix.
41. D.N.B.; Guildhall MSS. 9550, 9556.
42. Hennessy, Novum Rep. p. xlvi; Alum. Oxon. 1715- 1886, i. 175.
43. Eton Coll. Reg. 1753-90, 261.
44. Gent. Mag. xc (1), 566. Wrongly called John in Hennessy, Novum Rep. 367.
45. Vestry mins. 15 Mar. 1802; 12 Apr. 1803; passim.
47. Alum. Cantab. 1752-1900, i. 497; Le Neve, Fasti, 1541-1857, St. Paul's, Lond. 23.
49. Ibid.; G. Baker, Hist. Northampton, i (1822-30), 208.
50. Vestry mins. 12 Oct. 1753; 25 Feb. 1757; rate bk. 1762, 1767.
51. Vestry mins. 11 Mar. 1795; D.N.B.
52. Booth, 'Archives', 186-7; vestry mins. 14 Feb. 1800.
53. Booth, 'Archives', 186-7; vestry mins. 24 Sept. 1798; 27 May, 22 Sept. 1802.
54. Rep. Com. Eccl. Revenues, 667.
55. Clergy List (1859 and later edns.); Crockford (1926 and later edns.).
56. Lond. Rec. Soc. xvi. 73.
57. Home Counties Mag. i. 222.
58. Guildhall MSS. 9550; 9557, f. 40.
59. Lysons, Environs, iii. 336; vestry mins. 22 Dec. 1803.
60. Select vestry mins. 2 Oct. 1832.
62. Brit. Weekly, 26 Nov. 1886, 16.
63. Mudie-Smith, Rel. Life, 101. The census was taken in 1902-3, the Paddington figures being for Dec. 1902.
64. Newcourt, Rep. i. 703; Hennessy, Novum Rep. 367.
65. Hennessy, Novum Rep. 367.
66. Paddington Soc. Newsletter, Jan. 1964; Jan. 1970.
67. Bingham, Guide to Paddington , 136; D.N.B.; above, plate 49.
68. Paddington Soc. Newsletter, Jan. 1970; Reminiscences of Hen. Angelo, i. 230.
69. Para. based on Clarke, Lond. Chs. 113; Pevsner, Lond. ii. 296; notes supplied by V. Illus. in Country Life, 1 Nov. 1973, 1358-60.
70. 28 Geo. III, c. 74.
71. e.g. Lysons, Environs, iii. 332; Bingham, Official Guide to Paddington , 136-7; above, plate 48.
72. Marylebone libr., P 131.1, cuttings; inf. from V.
74. Pevsner, Lond. ii. 296; Gunnis, Sculptors, passim.
75. 5 Geo. II, c. 10 (Private); 26 Geo. II, c. 43.
76. Chwdns. acct. bk. (1656-1736), f. 148; Robins, Paddington, 72-3.
77. 28 Geo. III, c. 74.
78. Vestry mins. 31 Mar. 1807; 4 Apr. 1809.
79. 50 Geo. III, c. 44 (Local and Personal); Robins, Paddington, 89, 139-42; above, manors.
80. Marylebone libr. Boro. of Paddington, Faculties (1901), 3-5, 8-12, 42, 48-52; Lond. Gaz. 9 Aug. 1853, p. 2192; 28 Aug. 1857, p. 2913; above, social; pub. svces.
81. D.N.B.; Gunnis, Sculptors, 327; inf. from V.
82. Rest of para, based on Wheatley and Cunningham, Lond. Past and Present, iii. 2-3; D.N.B. passim; notes supplied by V.
84. Ibid.; Freshfield, Communion Plate, 53.
85. Vestry mins. 10, 14 Feb. 1800.
86. In 1982 the regs. were at G.L.R.O., P87/JS.
87. 3 Geo. III, c. 50.
89. e.g. select vestry mins. 2 May 1826 et seq.
90. Lond. Gaz. 23 Sept. 1834, pp. 1717-18.
91. J. Wittich, St. John's Ch., Hyde Pk. Cres. (booklet 1980), 4.
92. Reeder, 'Capital Investment', 335-6.
93. Ibid. 337; above, local govt.
94. Select vestry mins. 7 Jan. 1851; 28 June 1853; 3 Jan. 1854.
95. Marylebone libr., P 131.1 (rep. of vestry cttee.).
96. Mudie-Smith, Rel. Life, 88-9, 101.
97. For 19th- and 20th-cent. chs., below.
98. Marylebone libr., P 138, cuttings; inf. from mother superior.
99. Official Year Bk. of C. of E. (1921).
100. The Times, 12 Nov. 1895, 12a.
101. Inf. from Sisters of the Ch.; Official Year Bk. of C. of E. (1921).
102. P.O. Dir. Lond. (Suburban North 1880).
103. Besant, Lond. N. of Thames, 152.
104. The Times, 12 Nov. 1895, 12a.
105. Official Year Book of C. of E. (1886, 1892).
106. The Times, 28 Sept. 1895, 7d; 12 Nov. 1895, 12a; 9 Dec. 1895, 13a; 17 Dec. 1895, 15a; 30 Jan. 1896, 15a.
107. Kilburn Sisters and their Accusers (rep. by Church Bells magazine, 1896).
108. Besant, Lond. N. of Thames, 152.
109. Inf. from Sisters of the Ch.; above, social.
110. Inf. about patrons and asst. curates is from Clergy List, Crockford, and Lond. Dioc. Bk. (various edns.). Attendance figs. 1886 are from Brit. Weekly, 26 Nov. 1886, p. 16; figs. 1902 from Mudie-Smith, Rel. Life, 101. Liturgical directions are used in all architectural descriptions. The following abbreviations are used, in addition to those in the index: asst., assistant; Dec., Decorated; demol., demolished; Eng., England or English; mtg., meeting; Perp., Perpendicular; temp., temporary; V., vicar.
111. Lond. Gaz. 21 Apr. 1848, p. 1564.
113. Ibid.; Robbins, Paddington, 156-8.
114. Rest of para. based on C.C.C., Clarke MSS. xii. 1; ibid. 'Demol. chs.'.
116. Regs. in G.L.R.O., P87/ALL.
117. Wittich, St. John's Ch. 4, 6, 16.
118. Marylebone libr., P 131.1, cuttings.
119. Pevsner, Lond. ii. 297.
121. Paddington Soc. Newsletter, Feb. 1971.
122. J. Weale, Lond. Exhibited (1851), 521; above, pub. svces.
123. Mudie-Smith, Rel. Life, 101.
124. Lucas, Map of Paddington (1855); Pevsner, Lond. ii. 304; Marylebone libr., P 139.3 Lock hosp.
125. Crockford (1935, 1940); Paddington Soc. Newsletter, Oct. 1970.
126. Hennessy, Novum Rep. pp. xliv, 369.
127. Hutchings and Crowsley, Paddington Dir. (1878, 1886).
128. Lond. Gaz. 7 Mar. 1856, p. 957.
129. Mackeson's Guide (1889); Pevsner, Lond. ii. 298; Clarke, Lond. Chs. 116; C.C.C., survey files; Marylebone libr., P 131.1, cuttings.
130. Bingham, Official Guide to Paddington , 145.
131. Marylebone libr., P 131.1, cuttings; regs. in G.L.R.O., P87/CTC.
132. Hennessy, Novum Rep. pp. cix, 368; D.N.B.
133. Crockford (1907 and later edns.).
134. Lond. Gaz. 13 Aug. 1886, p. 3949.
135. Mackeson's Guide (1889); C.C.C., Clarke MSS. xiv. 91; inf. from Mr. C. Hewer.
136. Robins, Paddington, 154, 156; Clergy List (1859).
137. Lond. Gaz. 17 Nov. 1846, p. 4659.
139. Ibid.; 1,400 according to Mackeson's Guide (1889).
140. Robins, Paddington, 153-6; Pevsner, Lond. ii. 301; Clarke, Lond. Chs. 115; C.C.C., survey files; Illus. Lond. News, 27 Sept. 1845, 208; above, plate 51.
141. Marylebone libr., P 131.1, cuttings.
143. Lond. Gaz. 25 Feb. 1870, pp. 1013-14.
144. Rest of para. based on Mackeson's Guide (1889); T. F. Bumpus, Lond. Chs. ii (1908), 343-7; Pevsner, Lond. ii. 297-8; Clarke, Lond. Chs. 119-20; G. Stamp and C. Amery, Victorian Bldgs. of Lond. 1837-87 (1980), 116-17; A. Quiney, John Loughborough Pearson (1979), 104-14; Marylebone libr., P 131.1, cuttings; above, plate 50.
145. Marylebone libr., P 131.1, cuttings (where letter, like some other sources, says that paintings were given by Ld. Northcliffe); inf. from Revd. R. J. Avent.
146. Hen. Wood Promenade Concerts held there in 1970s: Paddington Times, 14 June, 2 Aug. 1974; inf. from Revd. R. J. Avent.
147. Inf. from Revd. T. J. Thomas.
148. Datestone; C.C.C., survey files; Clarke MSS. vii. 82.
149. Inf. from Revd. T. J. Thomas.
150. Westm. libr., C770, f. 301.
151. Lond. Gaz. 10 Mar. 1854, pp. 783-4.
152. C. Moore, St. Geo.'s Chapel (1883), 17, 19.
153. Kelly's Dir. Paddington (1888).
154. Westm. libr., C771, f. 291.
155. Moore, St. Geo.'s Chapel, 8.
156. Wheatley and Cunningham, Lond. Past and Present, i. 135.
158. Bingham, Official Guide to Paddington , 133-4.
160. Gutch's appt. by the vestry led to charges of favouritism from Lewis Vulliamy: select vestry mins. 6 July, 3 Aug. 1841.
161. Robins, Paddington, 147-9; Mackeson's Guide (1889); Pevsner, Lond. ii. 299; Clarke, Lond. Chs. 114.
162. Hennessy, Novum Rep. pp. cl, 368; D.N.B.
163. Hennessy, Novum Rep. pp. xxvi, 368; D.N.B.
164. Lond. Gaz. 23 Sept. 1834, p. 1718.
166. Wittich, St. John's Ch. 3-4; Robins, Paddington, 146; P.R.O., HO 129/1/2/1/4.
167. Wittich, St. John's Ch. passim; Pevsner, Lond. ii. 299; Clarke, Lond. Chs. 113.
168. Hennessy, Novum Rep. pp. xxv, 368; Rugby Sch. Reg. i, p. xviii.
169. Lond. Gaz. 4 July 1845, p. 1979.
172. Clarke, Lond. Chs. 114-15; Pevsner, Lond. ii. 299.
173. Lond. Gaz. 23 May 1979, p. 3536.
174. Mackeson's Guide (1889); C.C.C., survey files; ibid. Clarke MSS. xiv. 90; Marylebone libr., P 131.1, photos.
175. Youngs, Local Admin. Units of Eng. 331.
176. Inf. from V., St. Luke with St. Sim. and St. Jude; Kilburn Times, 18 Oct. 1960.
177. Mudie-Smith, Rel. Life, 101; Kelly's Dir. Mdx. (1888); Kelly's Dir. Paddington (1930).
178. Lond. Gaz. 21 Dec. 1877, p. 7339.
181. Marylebone libr., notes; P 131.1, cuttings; C.C.C., Clarke MSS. xxiii. 79.
182. Lond. Gaz. 4 Aug. 1868, p. 4322.
183. Mackeson's Guide (1889); C.C.C., survey files (photo. 1944); ibid., Clarke MSS. xiv. 91-2.
184. P.O. Dir. Lond. (1962, 1963).
185. Youngs, Local Admin. Units of Eng. 337 (which, however, confuses St. Luke, Tavistock Rd., with St. Luke, Fernhead Rd.).
186. Bacon, Atlas of Lond. (1886, 1910); Mackeson's Guide (1889); Marylebone libr., P 131.1, cuttings (St. Mary Magdalene).
187. Lond. Gaz. 4 Nov. 1864, p. 5179.
188. Clarke, Lond. Chs. 118.
189. Ibid. 118-19; Mackeson's Guide (1889); T. F. Bumpus, Lond. Chs. i. 43; ii. 318-25; Pevsner, Lond. ii. 300; above, plate 52.
190. P.R.O., HO 129/1/2/1/3; Robins, Paddington, 143; Clarke, Chs. of Lond. 120; Marylebone libr., P 131.1, photos.; above, plate 47.
191. McDonald, Short Hist. Paddington, no. 46, p. 111.
192. Clergy List (1859); Hennessy, Novum Rep. pp. cl, 370.
193. C.C.C., survey files (leaflet).
194. Mackeson's Guide (1889); C.C.C., Clarke MSS. xv. 83; Pevsner, Lond. ii. 300; Clarke, Lond. Chs. 120-1.
195. Lond. Gaz. 2 Aug. 1864, p. 3827.
196. Wittich, St. John's Ch. 6.
197. Rohde is the spelling adopted in D.N.B., s.v. Edw. Hawkins; alternative spellings are Rodhe and Rhode(s).
198. Mackeson's Guide (1889); C.C.C., survey files; ibid. Clarke MSS. ia. 180, demol. chs.; Pevsner, Lond. ii. 300; Clarke, Lond. Chs. 118; Marylebone libr., notes and P 131.1, photos.
199. Wittich, St. John's Ch. 16.
200. Regs. in G.L.R.O., P87/MAA.
201. Lond. Gaz. 30 Jan. 1874, p. 412.
202. O.S. Map 1/2,500, Lond. LX (1897 edn.); ibid. Lond. IV. 12 (1916 edn.).
203. Mackeson's Guide (1889); C.C.C., Clarke MSS. iii. 36; Bingham, Official Guide to Paddington , 138; Marylebone libr., P 131.1, photos.; inf. from Revd. F. G. W. W. Heydon.
204. Inf. from Mr. Heydon; P.O. Dir. Lond. (1959).
205. Lond. Gaz. 17 Jan. 1871, p. 166.
206. Mackeson's Guide (1889); Clarke, Lond. Chs. 120; C.C.C., survey files; Marylebone libr., P 131.1, cuttings and photos.
207. Clergy List (1866, 1892).
208. Mackeson's Guide (1889); Lucas, Plan of Paddington (1869); Marylebone libr. Paddington Faculties, 41-8.
209. Lond. Gaz. 1 Aug. 1856, p. 2662.
210. Pevsner, Lond. ii. 301; Clarke, Lond. Chs. 116-17; Illus. Lond. News, 19 Apr. 1856, 405; Marylebone libr., P 131.1, cuttings. Late example of open auditorium: Ecclesiologist, xvii. 425.
211. Marylebone libr., P 131.1, cuttings; inf. from V.
212. Lond. Gaz. 11 Aug. 1899, p. 4989.
213. O.S. Map 1/2,500, Lond. XLVII (1894-6 edn.).
214. Above, growth, Queen's Pk. and St. Peter's Pk.
215. Clarke, Lond. Chs. 121; Marylebone libr., notes; C.C.C., survey files; inf. from V., St. Luke with St. Sim. and St. Jude.
216. Lond. Gaz. 1 Aug. 1856, p. 2662.
217. Hennessy, Novum Rep. 371; Alum. Oxon. 1715-1886, i. 169.
218. Clarke, Lond. Chs. 117; C.C.C., survey files; Illus. Lond. News, 26 Jan. 1856, 102; Marylebone libr., P 131.1, cuttings; inf. from V.
219. The incumbent and patrons listed for 1889 in Hennessy, Novum Rep. 371, were those for St. Thomas's, Kensal Rd., Kensal New Town.
220. Mackeson's Guide (1889); Clergy List (1881); Bacon, Atlas of Lond. (1886, 1910); Marylebone libr., P 131.1, cuttings, St. Steph.

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