page_title: St Mary The Boltons
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: St Mary The Boltons / History
caption_attribution_description: English: St Mary's Church, The Boltons, London, seen from the south as originally proposed
context_page_description: St Mary The Boltons is an Anglican church in The Boltons, Brompton, London. It is a Grade II listed building.
context_section_description: The Boltons, a street in Brompton, was farmland until the middle of the 19th century. As part of westward expansion of London the land was developed by Robert Gunter the elder, who planned a residential estate, together with a church, to lend tone to the area. The church, built to a design by George Godwin the younger (who was also responsible for St Jude's, Courtfield Gardens, and St Luke's Church, Redcliffe Gardens) on land given by Gunter in the centre of the proposed development, was erected before the estate was built and was the first parish to be made out of the larger parish of Holy Trinity, Brompton, which since 1829 had covered much of Brompton. The cost of the church was £6,000 (equivalent to £650,000 in 2019), and the Church Building Commission gave a grant of £85 towards its construction. It was consecrated on 22 October 1850. The church's first incumbent, Rev. Hogarth J. Swale, met most of the building costs of the church. In July 2006 St Mary's Parish absorbed the parish of St Jude's, Courtfield Gardens, doubling its size.
caption: St Mary The Boltons as originally proposed before its construction in 1849–50
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