St Andrew's church, Totteridge
| St Andrew's church, Totteridge | |
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St Andrew's church, Totteridge
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| 51°37′56″N 0°12′01″W / 51.63234°N 0.20022°WCoordinates: 51°37′56″N 0°12′01″W / 51.63234°N 0.20022°W | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Previous denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Website | Official website |
| Architecture | |
| Heritage designation | Grade II |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Totteridge |
| Deanery | Barnet |
| Archdeaconry | Hertford |
| Diocese | St Albans |
| Clergy | |
| Vicar(s) | Tim Seago |
| Laity | |
| Director of music | Simon Pusey |
| Treasurer | Alex Wishart |
| Churchwarden(s) | Dixie Locke Anthony Konadu-Boateng |
| Parish administrator | Sarah Newlyn |
St Andrew's is the Church of England church for Totteridge in north London. It is located in the Diocese of St Albans, one of the few churches in Greater London to have this distinction.
The church was probably first mentioned in 1250, in a document which records Totteridge Church as belonging to St Etheldreda’s, Hatfield from whence it took its dedication. St Etheldreda was born near Newmarket in Suffolk about the year 630 and was the daughter of the Christian king of East Anglia. Over the years, the dedication was corrupted to St Audrey’s and wills from the time of the Protestant Reformation refer to the Church by both names. Then at some time between the Reformation and the late 17th century the dedication changed to St Andrew possibly when only biblical saints were in favour and when the written word “Audrey” might well be transcribed as “Andrew” without any objection.
In 1650 the Commonwealth Commissioners recommended that Totteridge Church should be detached from Hatfield and made a separate parish but it required the lapse of nearly two and half centuries and the intervention of an unhappy feud, in which the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury (as patron), the Bishop of Rochester and the Rector of Hatfield faced the uncompromising parishioners of Totteridge (in angry support of a succession of bewildered curates) to give effect to that recommendation. So, in 1892, by Order in Council, Totteridge became a separate parish with a Vicar appointed to care for the souls of the 785 inhabitants.
The present weathervane dates from 1706 and bears the initials R.B., for the then churchwarden, Richard Burdett. In 1790 the complete rebuilding and enlarging of the church was undertaken. One of the most active members of the vestry was William Manning, Governor of the Bank of England and father of Henry Manning, the future cardinal. The whole of the present church, therefore, dates from the 18th and 19th centuries.
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