St Anne and St Agnes

Coordinates: 51°30′59″N 0°5′47″W / 51.51639°N 0.09639°W / 51.51639; -0.09639
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51°30′59″N 0°5′47″W / 51.51639°N 0.09639°W / 51.51639; -0.09639

St Anne & St Agnes Church
Style
Baroque
Years builtrebuilt 1680

St Anne and St Agnes is a church located at Gresham Street in the

Anglican foundation, from 1966 to 2013 it was let to a congregation of the Lutheran Church in Great Britain
.

History

The Church of St Anne and St Agnes, Gresham Street, EC2, 1941 by Dennis Flanders

The first mention of a church on the present site is in documents of 1137

Norman records as St Anne-in-the-Willows[2] and as St Agnes. Its unusual double dedication, unique in the City, seems to have been acquired some time in the 15th century.[3]

The church was gutted by a fire in 1548 but was rebuilt soon after.[4] Further work was done in 1624. However, the building's 14th century tower was its only section to survive the Great Fire of London in 1666 (and then only partially).[5]

St Anne and St Agnes was rebuilt by Sir

St Martin Ludgate and St Mary-at-Hill. The parish was united with the parish of St John Zachary
by Act of Parliament in 1670 as St John's was not rebuilt after the Great Fire.

The church was extensively

Lutheran church, for use by the exile Estonian and Latvian communities in London. The reconstructed interior is a mixture of replicas of the prewar fittings and original or copied fittings from other London churches, some of which had also been destroyed in the war but were not reconstructed. The congregation of St Anne's Lutheran Church left the church in June 2013,[9] and began to share St Mary-at-Hill with its existing Anglican congregation. The building, now called the VOCES8 Centre, has become the home of the VOCES8 Foundation, an educational charity incorporating the vocal ensemble Voces8.[10]

Famous past parishioners have included the poet

Pilgrim's Progress.' John Wesley, founder of Methodism, preached twice at the church in 1738. The church was designated a Grade I listed building on 4 January 1950.[11]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5
  2. ^ "The City of London Churches: monuments of another age" Quantrill, E; Quantrill, M p52: London; Quartet; 1975
  3. ^ Cobb,G The Old Churches of London: London, Batsford,1942
  4. ^ "The City Churches" Tabor, M. p64:London; The Swarthmore Press Ltd; 1917
  5. ^ "The Survey of Building Sites in London after the Great Fire of 1666" Mills, P/ Oliver, J Vol I pp5-6: Guildhall Library MS. 84 reproduced in facsimile, London, London Topographical Society, 1946
  6. ISBN 0-9553945-0-3
  7. ISBN 0-300-09655-0
  8. ISBN 0-85372-112-2
  9. ^ "St Anne's Lutheran Church – Welcome, Worship, and Witness to Jesus Christ".
  10. ^ "Voes Cantabiles Music". Retrieved 22 August 2013.
  11. ^ Historic England. "Church of St Anne and St Agnes (1286384)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 23 January 2009.

External links

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