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St Paul's Knightsbridge

St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge
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Location 32a Wilton Place, Belgravia, London SW1X 8SH
Country England
Denomination Church of England
Churchmanship Anglo-Catholic
Website https://www.stpaulsknightsbridge.org/
History
Dedication Saint Paul
Architecture
Heritage designation Grade II*
Designated 24-Feb-1958
Architect(s) Thomas Cundy the younger
Style Victorian Gothic
Years built 1843
Administration
Parish St Paul, Wilton Place
Deanery Westminster (St Margaret)
Archdeaconry Charing Cross
Diocese London
Province Canterbury
Clergy
Archbishop Archbishop of Canterbury
Bishop(s) Bishop of London
Vicar(s) The Revd Alan Gyle
Assistant priest(s) The Revd Louis Darrant
Honorary priest(s) The Revd Andrew Norwood
The Ven Nick Mercer
The Rt Revd Michael Colclough
The Revd Graham Palmer
Laity
Director of music Stephen Farr
Organist(s) Michael Papadopoulos
Organ scholar Adam Mathias

St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge is a Grade II* listed Anglican church of the Anglo-Catholic tradition located at 32a Wilton Place, Knightsbridge, London.

The church was founded in 1843, the first in London to champion the ideals of the Oxford Movement, during the incumbency of the Reverend W. J. E. Bennett. The architect was Thomas Cundy the younger.

A memorial in St Paul's Church commemorates 52 members of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry who died on active service in World War II, carrying out secret intelligence work for the Special Operations Executive in occupied countries as well as providing transport drivers for the ATS. It includes three holders of the George Cross.

American heiress Jennie Churchill married British aristocrat George Cornwallis-West in this church.

St Paul's sister-parish is the Church of St. Paul's, K street, in Washington, DC in the United States.

After the building's consecration in 1843 the chancel with its rood screen and striking reredos was added in 1892 by the noted church architect George Frederick Bodley who also decorated St Luke's Chapel, which stands in the place of a Lady Chapel to the south of the sanctuary; the Lady Chapel of St Paul's having been traditionally seen as being the church of St Mary's, Bourne Street.


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