St Chad's Church, Haggerston

St Chad's, Haggerston, located on Dunloe Street in Haggerston, is an urban Anglican parish church in the diocese of London, England. Built to designs by architect James Brooks and completed in 1869 as part of the Haggerston Church Scheme, the Grade I Listed church was united with the parish of St Mary, Haggerston in 1953,^[4] following the destruction of that church in an air raid in 1941. St Chad's has a historical association with High Church liturgy and Anglo-Catholicism.^[5][6][7]

St Chad's, Haggerston
Church of St Chad, Dunloe Street
51.5317°N 0.0733°W / 51.5317; -0.0733
Location	Dunloe Street, Haggerston, London Borough of Hackney
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Churchmanship	Anglo-Catholic
Website	stchadhaggerston.org.uk
History
Status	Parish church
Dedication	Chad of Mercia
Consecrated	1869; 155 years ago (1869)
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	James Brooks
Style	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1867
Completed	1869
Construction cost	£7,500[1]
Specifications
Materials	red brick, Bath stone, slate roofs
Administration
Diocese	London
Archdeaconry	Hackney
Benefice	Haggerston (St Chad)[2]
Parish	St Chad Haggerston[3]
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name	Church of St Chad
Designated	3 January 1950
Reference no.	1265793

History

In 1862, the Shoreditch and Haggerston Church Extension Fund was started.^[6] The district of St Chad was created in 1863,^[8] with a committee formed for the erection of the church for the new parish holding its first meeting in January 1864.^[9] Construction was begun in 1867,^[10] and St Chad's was consecrated on April 4, 1869. At its design and completion, St Chad's was situated on the north-east corner of Nichols Square, a poor residential area consisting principally of terraced housing. Brooks also designed and built the adjacent vicarage, circa 1870, which is Grade II* listed.

The east end and chancel of St Chad's

“James Brooks is the name which one associates above all with the creation of a new type of urban church especially intended to act as a focus in poor and deprived areas. His great brick basilicas with their austere E. E. details, lit by tall clerestories rising triumphantly above their once squalid settings, are to be found chiefly in the East End, at Hoxton and Shoreditch.

— Nikolaus Pevsner.^[11]

"St Chad's is a good example of Brooks's austere and muscular red-brick Gothic, entirely appropriate for bringing Anglo-Catholicism to Haggerston"

— Charles Saumarez Smith, East London, ^[12]

Nichols Square was demolished in 1963 to create the Fellows Court Estate. In 1970, the church of St Augustine's, Yorkton Street (also built as part of the Haggerston Church Scheme), closed and its parish, which had sustained bombing in the war and subsequent demolition, was incorporated into the parish of St Chad's.

Architecture

Interior

Brooks designed the furniture and liturgical furnishings of several of his landmark East London churches.^[13] At St Chad's, he designed the reredos, which was carved by Thomas Earp, and the pulpit, and may have been responsible for further details including the rood screen.^[14] The clerestory and rose windows are plainly glazed, but there are several stained glass windows by eminent English designers and manufacturers Clayton and Bell, who were responsible for the three large-scale single figures in the apse^[15] – depicting a Christ in Majesty, flanked by windows with Mary as the Blessed Virgin, and St Chad, the church's patron saint.^[16]

The organ loft and pipe organ of St Chad's

Present day

St Chad's is an active Anglican parish church under the alternative episcopal oversight of the Bishop of Fulham, and is in the deanery of Hackney, in the Diocese of London.^[17] The building is on Historic England's 'Heritage at Risk Register',^[18] a programme for identifying for safeguarding significant historical sites at risk of loss.

Further reading

• Bumpus, Thomas Francis (1908). "St Columba's and St Chad's". London Churches Ancient & Modern: Classical & modern. United Kingdom: T. Werner Laurie.
• Betjeman, John; Kerr, Nigel (editor). "Shoreditch: St Chad". Sir John Betjeman's Guide to English Parish Churches (1993), page 370. From the Collins Guide to English Parish Churches (1968). United Kingdom: Harper Collins.

References

1. Transactions of the St. Paul's Ecclesiological Society (PDF). Vol. 1. London: Alabaster, Passmore, and Sons. 1881. OL 20424286M. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
2. "The Benefice of Haggerston (St Chad)". Crockford's Clerical Directory. Church House Publishing. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
3. "S Chad Haggerston (Church Heritage Record 623100)". Church of England Online Faculty System. Archbishops' Council. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
4. "S. Mary with S. Chad, Haggerston Parish Magazines 1868 - 1965". Hackney Archives. Hackney London Borough Council. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
5. Reed, John Shelton (1988). "'Ritualism Rampant in East London': Anglo-Catholicism and the Urban Poor". Victorian Studies. 31 (3). Indiana University Press: 375–403. JSTOR 3828097 – via JSTOR.
6. Leonard, John (2011). "The Victorian era: Gothic triumphant". London's Parish Churches. Oxford: Spire Books. pp. 252, 254–257, 274. ISBN 978-1-904965-33-6.
7. Walford, Edward (1878). "The northern suburbs: Haggerston and Hackney". Old and New London: Volume 5. London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin. pp. 505–524. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
8. "London Gazette, Order in Council constituting districts of St Columba, St Chad and St Augustine, Haggerston". The National Archives. London Metropolitan Archives.
9. "Committee for erection of St Chad's Church: minute book". The National Archives. London Metropolitan Archives.
10. Hitchcock, Henry-Russell (September 1957). "High Victorian Gothic". Victorian Studies. 1 (1). Indiana University Press: 63. JSTOR 3825515. Retrieved 10 February 2022 – via JSTOR.
11. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry (2002). "Churches: 1850–1880". London 2: South. United Kingdom: Yale University Press. p. 61. ISBN 9780300096514.
12. Saumarez Smith, Charles (2017). East London. Thames & Hudson. p. 324. ISBN 9780500519554.
13. "Person: Brooks, James". V&A Collections Archive. Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
14. "Church of St Chad". Historic England. English Heritage. 4 February 1975. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
15. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (1988). "Shoreditch: Religious Buildings". London 4: North. The Buildings of England. New Haven & London: Yale University Press (published 2002). pp. 60, 516, 519. ISBN 0-300-09653-4.
16. Bumpus, Thomas Francis (1908). "London Churches: Shoreditch and Haggerston; St Columba's and St Chad's". London Churches: Ancient and Modern (PDF). Classical & Modern. Vol. 2. Clifford's Inn, London: T. Werner Laurie. pp. 132, 280–282, 286–293.
17. "S Chad, Haggerston". A Church Near You. Archbishops' Council. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
18. "Church of St Chad, Dunloe Street, Hackney E2 - Hackney". Heritage at Risk Register. Historic England. Retrieved 10 February 2022.

External links

• Official website
• Church of St Chad, Dunloe Street entry on The National Heritage List for England