St. Chad’s Church
Haggerston
Dunloe Street, London E2 8JR
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www.stchadhaggerston.org
St. Chad’s was described by Sir John Betjeman as one of the best examples of an East-End Anglo-Catholic Church.
Architectural Description
A cruciform church with aisles. Central bell cote and tall, pyramidal leaded roof.
Red brick with stone dressings. Very high proportions, high pitched slated roof. C13 style with lancets and plate tracery.
Wheel windows in transepts. Apsidal east end, with north -east vestry under pyramidal roof,
South-east chapel with apsidal end. Inside 3 -bay nave, west bay now partitioned off.
Characteristic stout, low round piers of stone.
Red brick interior with stone arcade soffits.
Very tall chancel arch to rib-vaulted chancel with stone ribs, brick panels.
Wrought iron screen on low stone wall.
Carved reredos with crucifixion and saints. Chancel piers very stout with modified waterleaf capitals.
Grey limestone font in C13 style.
The Church and Vicarage of St Chad are built in the same style .
A cruciform church with aisles. Central bell cote and tall, pyramidal leaded roof.
Red brick with stone dressings. Very high proportions, high pitched slated roof. C13 style with lancets and plate tracery.
Wheel windows in transepts. Apsidal east end, with north -
South-
Characteristic stout, low round piers of stone.
Red brick interior with stone arcade soffits.
Very tall chancel arch to rib-
Wrought iron screen on low stone wall.
Carved reredos with crucifixion and saints. Chancel piers very stout with modified waterleaf capitals.
Grey limestone font in C13 style.
The Church and Vicarage of St Chad are built in the same style .
Altar at High Mass on Sundays
Holy Communion
Designed by 1868 by James Brooks a local architect from Stoke Newington, The Anglo Catholic Church of St. Chad, Haggerston is a Grade 1 building.
‘Tucked around the little church were some terraced houses.
However, in the mid 1960’s progress brought the giant tower blocks.
These were the dream homes of the architects’ table; and have contributed so much to the isolation and fragmentation of our parish life today’. (From :The Heart of the Parish Fr J.Westcott).
