List of places of worship in Crawley

The borough of Crawley, in West Sussex, England, has 42 churches, chapels and other buildings used specifically for worship. Other religious communities meet in community centres, schools and other buildings whose primary function is secular. Two other former places of worship are no longer used for that purpose. The borough covers the New Town of Crawley, whose development began in the late 1940s, and Gatwick Airport—an international airport which has two multi-faith chapels of its own. The New Town absorbed three villages with a long history of Christian worship, and later extensions to the boundary have brought other churches into the borough.

Crawley has a majority Christian population, but it has a much larger proportion of Muslim and Hindu residents than England overall. There is a Hindu temple (Sanatan Mandir) and a Hindu centre (Swaminarayan Manor), a Sikh gurdwara and two mosques. A Quaker meeting house in the Ifield area is one of the oldest in the world.

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History and development

Most of the borough's 44.97 km2 (17.36 sq mi)[1] area is covered by Crawley New Town. The area around the villages of Three Bridges, Crawley and Ifield was selected by the British Government as the site for one of the developments proposed in the New Towns Act 1946.[2] The Government set up a Development Corporation, headed by Sir Thomas Bennett, to coordinate the work. Anthony Minoprio designed the plans, and building work started in the late 1940s and continued until the late 1980s.[3] The New Town consisted of self-contained neighbourhoods, each of which had at least one Anglican church. The Development Corporation's intention was for one to be placed at the centre of each neighbourhood, and for churches of other Christian denominations to occupy sites where they could serve a larger area covering several neighbourhoods. This plan was followed as far as practicable.[4] The Corporation provided the freehold of the land on which churches were built at 25% of the price that applied for residential land use.[5]

There are two mosques in the town; both were established in the mid-1980s.[6] Gurjar Hindus established a mandir (temple) in a building in West Green around 1970[7] and moved to another in 1997.[8] A new temple in the Ifield area was expected to open in December 2009,[9][10] but construction was delayed and it opened on 23 May 2010.[11] It is the largest such temple in South East England, at 230 m2 (2,500 sq ft), and also has a 1,216 m2 (13,090 sq ft) community centre.[12] There is no synagogue in Crawley, although a small Jewish community—followers of the Liberal form of Progressive Judaism—meet regularly.[13] Planning permission for a synagogue had been granted in 1964, but it was never built.[6] There is a small Sikh gurdwara in West Green; planning permission has been granted for its demolition and replacement with a larger two-storey structure.[14]

Expansion of the borough's boundary has brought more churches into Crawley, including the early 11th-century church at Worth—formerly an isolated Wealden village at the centre of its own large parish.[15]

Religious affiliation in Crawley

The old villages of Three Bridges, Crawley and Ifield lay within the ancient parishes of Crawley and Ifield. Both of their 13th-century parish churches are still used for Anglican worship. Ifield was a centre of Nonconformism in the 17th century:[16] its Friends Meeting House was built in 1676, when more than 25% of the village's residents were Dissenters.[17]

According to the 2001 United Kingdom Census, 99,744 people lived in Crawley. Of these, 67.3% identified themselves as Christian, 4.4% were Muslim, 3.4% were Hindu, 0.7% were Sikh, 0.2% were Buddhist, 0.1% were Jewish, 0.3% followed another religion, 16.8% claimed no religious affiliation and 6.8% did not state their religion. The proportion of Christians is lower than the 71.7% in England as a whole, whereas there are more Muslims and Hindus in Crawley than in England overall: 3.1% of people in England are Muslim, and 1.1% are Hindu.[18]

Open places of worship

Name Image Area/
Coordinates		 Denomination/
Affiliation		 Notes
Broadfield Islamic Centre and Mosque Broadfield
 Muslim (Sunni) A house in Broadfield had been used as a mosque since the early 1980s.[6][8] An Islamic community centre, incorporating the new Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque,[19] was built in 1994.[8] It follows the Sunni tradition of Islam.[20]
Christ the Lord Church Broadfield
 Anglican,
Roman Catholic,
Evangelical		 The brick building of polygonal design, built between 1980 and 1981 as an integral part of the new Broadfield neighbourhood's community centre, is a combined church and community centre shared by the Broadfield Christian Fellowship (an Evangelical congregation), Anglicans and Roman Catholics.[8] The Anglican community is included in the parish of Southgate under St Mary's Church.[5][21][22]
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Southgate
 Mormon Sir Thomas Bennett, the principal architect of Crawley New Town, designed this chapel and its associated hall himself. It opened in 1964.[23][24]
Crawley Baptist Church West Green
 Baptist The first Baptist Church in Crawley was established in Station Road in 1883. The church was severely damaged by a bomb during the Second World War, and new premises were built in the West Green neighbourhood in 1954. These were in turn demolished in 2002 to allow the present building to be constructed on the site; this was completed in 2003.[8][23][25]
Crawley Community Church Southgate
 Evangelical This is an evangelical church within the Charismatic Movement, using as its worship and pastoral centre a former private house in the Southgate neighbourhood.[26]
Crawley New Life Church Furnace Green
 Assemblies of God This Pentecostalist church, which offers a weekly service on Sundays, is affiliated with the Assemblies of God denomination.[27] It was built in 1981, before which the community used rooms in Crawley town centre.[23][28]
Crawley Spiritualist Church and Healing Centre Gossops Green
 Spiritualist A Spiritualist community emerged in Crawley in 1950. Worshippers used private houses and (from 1965)[23] halls in Southgate, West Green and the town centre until the present wooden church was opened in 1980.[29][30]
Crawley United Reformed Church Pound Hill
 United Reformed This was founded in 1955 as a Congregational church called Christ Church.[31][32] The Congregational and Presbyterian churches of England united in 1972 to form the United Reformed Church.[33] In December 2010, it reformed under its present name after the congregation of Trinity Church in Ifield joined.[34]
Elim Church Crawley Langley Green
 Elim Pentecostal This church community became established in Crawley in the 1950s. Some services are now held at Ifield Community College.[8] Worshippers used various neighbourhood community centres until this building opened in 1971.[23][30]
Gateway Church International Southgate
 Independent The building houses an Independent Christian congregation which is associated with New Covenant Ministries International.[35] Originally opened in 1957 as Southgate Hall as a Plymouth Brethren meeting room, it became the Brewer Road Evangelical Church in the 1980s.[23]
Green Fields Baptist Church Tilgate
 Baptist Services were initially held in a temporary building on a site bought by the Baptist community in 1957. For a time during the 1960s it was linked with the main Crawley Baptist Church in West Green. The present church was built in 1970.[30][23]
Holy Trinity Church Tilgate
 Anglican Tilgate's Anglican church was built in 1959 and is included in the parish of Southgate under St Mary's Church.[5][21]
Ifield Friends Meeting House Ifield
 Quaker Built in 1676, the Grade I-listed building is one of the oldest purpose-built Quaker places of worship. William Penn and Elizabeth Fry were associated with it in its early years.[36][37]
Kingdom Hall Northgate
 Jehovah's Witnesses This opened in 1983 as one of three Kingdom Halls in Crawley. The others had been established in a room on The Broadway in the town centre in 1958 and in Three Bridges in 1965.[23][22]
Kingdom Hall Three Bridges
 Jehovah's Witnesses The Three Bridges neighbourhood's Kingdom Hall is the older of the two that remain in Crawley.[23][24]
Langley Green Islamic Centre and Mosque Langley Green
 Muslim (Sunni) The mosque, which follows the Sunni tradition,[20] was founded in a converted house on the London Road near the County Oak industrial area in 1984.[6][22] In 2008, members applied to redevelop the site and build a larger, purpose-built facility.[38]
Maidenbower Baptist Church Maidenbower
 Baptist A Baptist church plant was established in a disused chapel in the town centre in the 1970s. Redevelopment resulted in its closure, and the congregation moved to Crawley's newest neighbourhood, Maidenbower. The community centre was used between 1996 and 2001, when the present church was opened.[8][25]
Our Lady Queen of Heaven Church Langley Green
 Roman Catholic The brick and concrete church, opened in 1959,[39] is part of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton's Crawley Parish, consisting of six churches in Crawley and a convent chapel in Copthorne.[40][31]
St Alban's Church Gossops Green
 Anglican This brick building with a tall bell tower is part of the parish of Ifield, under St Margaret's Church.[41] It opened in 1962, although Anglican worship in the neighbourhood had begun four years earlier in a temporary building.[42]
St Andrew's Church Furnace Green
 Anglican The original St Andrew's church was built between 1968 and 1969 and included in the parish of Southgate under St Mary's Church. In 2009 the original church was demolished and replaced with a new building.[5][21]
St Barnabas' Church Pound Hill
 Anglican Built between 1956 and 1957, this large church is a brick structure with an attached hall.[5]
St Bernadette's Church Tilgate
 Roman Catholic Built in 1962,[39] the church is in the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton's Crawley Parish, consisting of six churches in Crawley and a convent chapel in Copthorne.[40][43]
St Edward the Confessor's Church Pound Hill
 Roman Catholic This church was constructed from reinforced concrete in 1965, and has an integrated church hall.[39] It is part of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton's Crawley Parish, consisting of six churches in Crawley and a convent chapel in Copthorne.[40][24]
St Elizabeth's Church Northgate
 Anglican Northgate's Anglican church was built in 1958 and enlarged in 1965.[5]
St Francis and St Anthony's Church Crawley Town Centre
 Roman Catholic Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel built this church on the site of a Capuchin Franciscan friary[44] in 1959. The Grade II listed building[45] is being renovated, and is in the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton's Crawley Parish.[40][46]
St John the Baptist's Church Crawley Town Centre
 Anglican This Grade II*-listed building[47] is the parish church of Crawley. Parts date from the 13th century, but there have been many later alterations, including the rebuilt tower of 1807.[48]
St Leonard's Church Langley Green
 Anglican Langley Green's Anglican church, built of brick in 1955,[42] is in the parish of Ifield, under St Margaret's Church.[41]
St Margaret's Church Ifield
 Anglican Ifield's parish church is a Grade I-listed building,[49] built in the 13th century (on the site of a 10th-century church) and subsequently extended.[42][50] Mark Lemon is buried here.[51]
St Mary Magdalene's Church (The Barn Church) Bewbush
 Anglican Part of the parish of Ifield, under St Margaret's Church,[41] this is a small "barn church" with strong community involvement.[52] The 16th-century building was renovated as a church in 1999 with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.[53] It is listed at Grade II.[54] Services in Bewbush had begun before 1984 in another building.[42]
St Mary's Church Southgate
 Anglican Henry Braddock and D.F. Martin-Smith's 1958 building is designed so that the adjoining church hall can be used as an extension of the main church. The roof has a centrally-positioned flèche on top of a small, boxlike bell tower. One wall consists of concrete slabs pierced with decorative shards of blue glass.[55] It became a parish church in 1959; the churches at Broadfield, Furnace Green and Tilgate are linked to it.[5][21]
St Michael and All Angels Church Lowfield Heath
 Seventh-day Adventist William Burges built this French Gothic church in 1867 as the Anglican parish church of the village of Lowfield Heath.[56] It was moved from Surrey into the Borough of Crawley in 1974,[57] but the village had been rendered uninhabitable by the expansion of Gatwick Airport.[58] The Diocese of Chichester allowed the Seventh-day Adventist Church to take over the Grade II*-listed building[59] in 2008.[60]
St Nicholas' Church (Worth Church) Pound Hill
 Anglican The parish church of Worth is now within the Borough of Crawley.[61] This Grade I-listed church[62] is of Saxon origin (probably 11th-century); it was extended in the 13th century and restored in 1871 and 1986.[63][64][65]
St Paul's Methodist Church Northgate
 Methodist The present church was built to a polygonal brick design in 1966, and replaced an adjacent building of 1953 which then became the church hall.[31][8][23]
St Peter's Church West Green
 Anglican This large church was designed between 1892 and 1893 by W. Hilton Nash[55] and built by Richard Cook, owner of a large building firm in the town.[66] It replaced a nearby chapel of ease to St Margaret's Church[67]
St Richard of Chichester's Church Three Bridges
 Anglican The first St Richard of Chichester's Church was built in 1952 by N.F. Cachemaille-Day and Partners.[55] It was found to be structurally unsound, declared redundant as from 1 January 1994 and demolished.[68] In November 1993, Crawley Borough Council granted planning permission for a new church,[69] which was completed in 1995.[8][70]
St Theodore of Canterbury's Church Gossops Green
 Roman Catholic Built in 1971, the church has a brick exterior and a timber internal structure with cruck framing.[39] It is part of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton's Crawley Parish, consisting of six churches in Crawley and a convent chapel in Copthorne.[40][46]
Sanatan Mandir Ifield
 Hindu This temple replaces the Gurjar Hindu Union's building in West Gree. Work at Apple Tree Farm, a 8.5-acre (3.4 ha) site on the Ifield/Langley Green border, began in May 2008. Planning permission was temporarily withdrawn,[71][72] but work restarted in 2009 and continued until May 2010, when the temple opened.[11]
Siri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara West Green
 Sikh Crawley's Sikh community meet in a single-storey structure, built in 1982.[8] Up to 250 worshippers regularly attend from a wide area: the temple serves Sikhs across a 25-mile (40 km) radius. Crawley Borough Council has granted permission for the building to be demolished and replaced with a new temple.[14][28]
Swaminarayan Manor Gatwick Langley Green
 Hindu This Swaminarayan Hindu centre opened in 2006 on Bonnetts Lane near Ifield village.[73] It was converted from a hotel, and accommodation is still provided on site.[74]
The Meeting Room Povey Cross
 Brethren A small building was registered for worship under this name on Povey Cross Road near Horley.[25] It is just on the West Sussex side of the Surrey county boundary.[75]
Three Bridges Free Church Three Bridges
 Evangelical This church was built in 1963 on land purchased in 1958 to replace the nearby Worth Mission Hall, which was built in 1876 and extended in 1884.[23][43][76]
Three Bridges Spiritualist Church Three Bridges
 Spiritualist When the former Worth Mission Hall was vacated by Three Bridges Free Church, who had built a new church nearby,[76] a Spiritualist community took over the building. They re-registered it for worship (originally as New Town Psychic Centre) in 1966.[23][24]

Closed or disused places of worship

Name Image Area/
Coordinates		 Denomination/
Affiliation		 Notes
Sanatan Mandir West Green
 Hindu The Gurjar Hindu Union of Crawley, established in 1968, moved to this small temple and community centre in 1997.[7][8] The community started building a new temple and community centre at a site in Ifield in 2008, and moved to it upon its completion in 2010.[11]
Trinity Church Ifield
 United Reformed The church had its origins in the Trinity Congregational church, built in Robinson Road in 1863. The Gothic Revival building was demolished in 1962, and this new church was provided the following year in Ifield Drive.[17] It closed in December 2010 and the congregation moved to Christ Church at Pound Hill, which was reformed as Crawley United Reformed Church.[34]

Communities with no dedicated building

There are several communities in Crawley that do not worship at a building used solely for religious purposes. The non-denominational Crawley Family Church uses Waterfield Primary School,[77] which opened in 1985 in Bewbush.[78] Also in Bewbush, an Elim Pentecostal congregation meets weekly at Bewbush Community Primary School; regular prayer meetings, study groups and other social activities take place elsewhere in the neighbourhood.[79] This church is associated with the Elim church in Langley Green.[8] The Crawley Gatwick Church of Christ, an independent, non-denominational congregation formed in 1996, meets at the community centre in Gossops Green.[80] The Salvation Army established a barracks in 1902 in West Green,[17] but the Crawley branch is now based in Ifield: worship takes place at the neighbourhood's community centre.[8] The Kingdom Faith church, affiliated with a group of churches based in nearby Horsham, meets at Oriel High School in the Maidenbower neighbourhood.[8] In 2006, a Pentecostalist community founded the Exodus Pentecostal Church, which worships at Tree House—Crawley's ancient manor house,[81] now owned by the Borough Council.[82] The weekly services cater especially for residents from Diego Garcia and Mauritius.[8]

Gatwick Airport

One of London's international airports, Gatwick Airport, was moved into the Borough of Crawley in 1974.[57] A year earlier, a multi-faith chaplaincy had been established in the terminal building (now the South Terminal).[83][84] The chaplaincy is coordinated by the Anglican minister, whose licence was renewed in November 2008.[83] Roman Catholic and Free Church ministers are also on site. When the North Terminal was built, a similar chapel was provided there.[85] Both chapels are open at all times for prayer and meditation, and offer regular services throughout the week.[84]

See also

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