Whatever your faith, or none, Chiswick’s churches are well worth exploring, for their architecture, heritage, history and community activities. Paintings above from the Chiswick Timeline: A History in Art & Maps (best viewed on Chrome). L-r: St Nicholas, Christ Church, St Michael & All Angels, Russian Orthodox Cathedral.
– Hours of access are limited. Please check their websites and noticeboards for details.
– Several appear in the book ‘Chiswick in 50 Buildings’; these are marked below with a cross +.
– Others, suggested in our competition to find the ‘51st Building’, are marked with an asterisk *.
– See those lists here. (Click links to read more, and pictures to enlarge them).
We’re grateful to the following churches for enhancing ‘Exploring Chiswick’ with their own arts and heritage initiatives.
– During Lent, St Michael & All Angels Bedford Park produces daily reflections on its stained-glass windows (above).
– Chiswick’s oldest parish church, St Nicholas Chiswick, published new material about its stained-glass windows and 17th-century Chaloner Monument.
– St Michael’s Elmwood Road (right) invited its parishioners to write in to say why it should be named as Chiswick’s 51st Building (it was one of the two winners).
– St Paul’s Grove Park enhanced its ‘History and literary connections‘ page with information about Dylan Thomas and the films and TV series shot in its Vicarage.
We list a selection of Chiswick’s buildings of worship below, in alphabetical order.
Chiswick Baptist Church
Church website – History
Christ Church Turnham Green +
Church website – Wikipedia page
London Buddhist Vihara + (right)
Temple website – Wikipedia page – The Chiswick Calendar
London Russian Orthodox Church Abroad +
Church website – Wikipedia page
Our Lady of Grace and St Edward’s Chiswick + (right)
Church website – History (BCLHS)
St Alban’s Acton Green *
Church website – Wikipedia page
St Michael & All Angels, Bedford Park +
Church website – Church history – Maps and WW1 memorials – Wikipedia entry – Melbourne House & St Michael’s (BCLHS)
St Michael’s Elmwood Road *
Church website – WW1 Memorial – Heroes of Chiswick (including a brochure to download *from desktop only and details of its Horace Wilkinson stained-glass window) – History (BCLHS)
St Nicholas Chiswick +
Church website – Heritage – History – Stained-glass Windows – Chaloner Monument (right) – Notable tombs – Archives – The Burges Window (BCLHS) – Church Tower (BCLHS) – Wikipedia page
St Paul’s Grove Park * (right)
Church website – History & literary connections
St Peter’s Acton Green
Church website