Jewin Welsh Presbyterian Chapel

The second chapel, built to a design of Edmund Aikin, in 1808 and demolished in 1846. Jewin Street no longer exists.

The Jewin Welsh Presbyterian Chapel (Welsh: Eglwys Gymraeg Jewin) is a Presbyterian Church of Wales church in Clerkenwell, London, England.

The current building was built between 23 June 1950 and 12 January 1951,[1] to be developed near to the Golden Lane Estate. It replaced a chapel built in 1878-9 in nearby Jewin Crescent, a site now incorporated into the Barbican. This was a replacement for the original chapel which had been established in 1774, the first of 30 Welsh chapels in London. The site move to Fann Street was brought about by the extent of World War 2 bomb damage to the 1878 chapel.[1] Designed in a Swedish-inspired form of modern architecture sometimes called the New Humanism, it opened in 1961 and has a traditionally laid our chapel interior with horse-shoe gallery and a Compton organ.[2]

After a dramatic fall in the congregation, in 2013 London-based BBC News presenter Huw Edwards agreed to lead a campaign to save the building and the chapel, to keep the traditions of the London Welsh community alive. Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones choose the campaign as his input to BBC Wales Today for Children In Need 2013.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Jewin Welsh Presbyterian Chapel". National Archives. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  2. ↑ Paul Smith (4 May 2006). Walking the Tube - the Hammersmith & City Line. Lulu.com. ISBN 978-1411697072.
  3. ↑ "Huw Edwards leads campaign to save Jewin Presbyterian Church". BBC Wales. 18 November 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2013.

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