Jewin Welsh Presbyterian Chapel

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

Jewin Welsh Presbyterian Chapel

The current building was opened in 1960^[1] on a site adjoining the Golden Lane Estate. It replaced a chapel built in 1878–1879 that was destroyed in World War II during the air raids in September 1940. The congregation had moved there in 1879 from nearby Jewin Crescent, a site now incorporated into the Barbican. The Jewin Crescent chapel had opened in 1822, following a move from Wilderness Row, Clerkenwell. The first services had taken place in c. 1774 in Cock Lane, Smithfield. The current building was designed by Caroe and Partners^[2] in a Swedish-inspired form of modern architecture sometimes called the New Humanism.

After a dramatic fall in the congregation, in 2013 London-based BBC News presenter Huw Edwards, who occasionally substitutes as the chapel's organist, agreed to lead a campaign to save the building and the chapel, to keep the traditions of the London Welsh community alive.^[3] Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones chose the campaign as his input to BBC Wales Today for Children in Need 2013.^[4]

References

1. "History". capeljewin. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
2. "Jewin Welsh Presbyterian Church". The Twentieth Century Society. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
3. Blunden, Mark (21 November 2013). "Edwards plea for Welsh church". London Evening Standard. p. 44.
4. "Huw Edwards leads campaign to save Jewin Presbyterian Church". BBC Cymru Wales. 18 November 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2013.

External links

• Capel Jewin

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