Finsbury Chapel

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Finsbury Chapel facade, steel engraving by Thomas Barber

The Finsbury Chapel , also known as the Congregational Chapel or Finsbury Congregational Chapel or Fletcher's Chapel , was a church of the Scottish Calvinists in London . The church, built in the classical style, was on the south side of the confluence of the eastern approach to Finsbury Circus (East Street) on Blomfield Street. The church included the mission house of the London Missionary Society and the Congregational Library across the street, where the first building of the Roman Catholic Church of St Mary Moorfields stood.

history

Finsbury Chapel was opened with two services on the morning and evening of December 6, 1826 and replaced the Albion Chapel , which had been lost to the Congregation . The building was erected when Alexander Fletcher was the Reverend of the community. He also laid the foundation.

The church's architect was William Brooks , who also designed the London Institution building at Finsbury Circus .

building

The almost circular church service room offered 3,500 seats, 1,700 of them in the ship, 1,300 in the main gallery containing seven rows of banks and another 500 in a higher, narrower gallery for children and the poor; this was free for the poorer worshipers. The rows of pews on the floor level of the room were arranged upwards in the manner of an amphitheater . According to other information, the church held 2,260 people and at Christmas almost 5,000.

The pulpit was modeled after a lectern in the Bodleian Library . The church interior is said to have had excellent acoustics.

A ground rent of 80 pounds per year had to be paid to the City of London as the property owner for the building site. It had cost £ 10,000 to build.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Lenz: Travel Calendar: A detailed travel guide and guide through Germany, Austria, Belgium, Holland, France, Upper Italy, Switzerland, to London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Warsaw and the German baths . Volckmar, Leipzig 1855, p. 358. [1]
  2. ↑ The Mother's magazine. Continued as The Mother's magazine and family preacher . London 1859, p. 246. [2]
  3. ↑ James Elmes: Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century: Displayed in a Series of Engravings . Jones & Co, London 1828, p. 163. [3]
  4. ^ The Christian's Penny Magazine, No. 115, August 16, 1834, p. 257 .
  5. ^ The Evangelical Register, January 1838, pp. 1 f.
  6. ^ The Evangelical Register, January 1838, p. 1
  7. ^ The Evangelical Register, January 1838, p. 2
  8. ^ The Christian's Penny Magazine, No. 115, August 16, 1834, p. 257 .
  9. ^ The Christian's Penny Magazine, No. 115, August 16, 1834, p. 257 .
  10. ^ The Christian's Penny Magazine, No. 115, August 16, 1834, p. 257 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '3.1 "  N , 0 ° 5' 5.7"  W.