page_title: St Paul's Church, Harringay
section_title: 1883: the first parish church
hierarchical_section_title: St Paul's Church, Harringay / 1883: the first parish church
caption_attribution_description: English: The original building of, Wightman Road, Harringay, London, N4, as seen about 1930. It was destroyed by fire in 1984 and replaced by a new building in 1993.
context_page_description: The Church of St Paul the Apostle, Wightman Road, Harringay, London, N4, serves the parish of Harringay in north London. In ecclesiastical terms the parish is part of the Edmonton Episcopal Area of the Diocese of London. In political terms the parish is in the London Borough of Haringey.
  In 1984 the nineteenth-century church building was destroyed by fire, and the present iconic building was opened in 1993, designed by London architects Peter Inskip and Peter Jenkins.
  In September 2018, the church was revitalised with the support of Christ Church Mayfair. There are two services on Sundays: Holy Communion at 9:30am and an Informal service at 11:00am.
  The parish of Harringay is situated at one corner of what was formerly part of Hornsey parish, adjacent to Stoke Newington parish.
context_section_description: In 1883, the Reverend Joshua Greaves was appointed vicar, and found at Harringay a fast-growing housing estate rapidly covering open spaces and fields, but no church building. A temporary tin hut mission church was opened for worship on 23 December when there were six communicants and a collection of 14s 3d. The temporary church stood in Burgoyne Road.
  The digging of the ground preparatory to building the first permanent church began on Tuesday, 20 May 1890, and the foundation stone was laid by Lady Louisa Wolseley (1843–1920) on Saturday, 31 May 1890. The church was consecrated on 1 October 1891 by Dr. Frederick Temple, the Bishop of London.
  On 28 June 1892 the ecclesiastical Parish of St. Paul's Harringay was formed out of Holy Trinity Stroud Green, St. Anne's Stamford Hill, and St. Mary's Hornsey. The living was £387 net per year, with benefice.
caption: St. Paul's church in c. 1930.
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