South Place Chapel
The South Place Chapel was a Unitarian church on South Place in London .
Building description and history
The church was on the site of today's River Plate House , 12-13 South Place, and adjoined the side and rear of the buildings of the London institution located at Finsbury Circus . It was built in 1838 or 1824 in the classical style. The facade with its three window axes over two storeys was structured by four wide Ionic columns and two flat pilasters on each side of the facade. This substructure carried a simply designed triangular gable. Since the columns were placed quite close to the wall, there was no portico due to the lack of accessibility of the room behind the columns . The large hall of the building held 800 people.
The church building was contemporary dismissed as unusual in every respect and deviating from the true belief in legitimate architecture. The church was demolished in 1924.
Between 1824 and 1852, William J. Fox , a former member of the House of Commons for the district of Oldham , served as minister of the Chapel . Stanton Coit was minister of worship from 1887 to 1891 and renamed it the South Place Ethical Society . He stayed there until 1928. The composer Eliza Flower (1803-1846) sang in the choir of the church and wrote a songbook for it.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jean Anne Fowler: Humanism. Beliefs & Practices. Sussex Academic Press, 1999, ISBN 1-898723-70-2 , p. 27 Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Theodore M Porter: Karl Pearson: The scientific life in a statistical age . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2005, ISBN 0-691-12635-6 , p. 110 [1]
- ^ Walter Thornbury: Old and New London. Vol. 2, London et al. 1889, p. 206.
- ↑ books.google.de
- ↑ Information on the memorial plaque attached to the location of the church, reproduced on the website ukunitarians.org.uk Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 18, 2011.
- ↑ Information on the website ukunitarians.org.uk Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 18, 2011.
- ^ Walter Thornbury: Old and New London. Vol. 2, London et al. 1889, p. 206.
- ↑ Jean Anne Fowler: Humanism. Beliefs & Practices. Sussex Academic Press, 1999, ISBN 1-898723-70-2 , p. 27 Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Website ethicalsoc.org.uk Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 18, 2011.
- ^ Cathy Hartley: A historical dictionary of British women . Routledge, London 2003, ISBN 1-85743-228-2 , p. 171 [2]
