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English free churchmen and a national style
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016
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We are building a Church’, wrote Ernest Barson, minister of Penge congregational church in 1911, ‘. . to welcome to worship and service men and women . . . of real faith, such as we often meet in our homes, in business, in social service, but for whom room and freedom have not always been found in the Churches . .’ A year later he opened his church. A minister from Purley spoke on the church and the businessman, and one from Brixton spoke on worship: ‘the church must be learned, common and catholic’. This speaker delighted in paradox:
the minister incurred a grave responsibility who deprived any one of the right to utter prayer and praise. [But] the overwhelming experience of Christianity was in favour of a Liturgy . . . Then their Church must be Catholic. They should forget that they were Nonconformists in their worship . . . and never never forget that they worshipped not as Nonconformists, but as members of the holy family of the Church.
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1 Penge Congregational Church: Fourth Annual Report . . .for 1911 (Penge 1912) p 11.
2 Norwood News, Penge and Anerley News, Sydenham and Forest Hill News, and General Advertiser for Selhurst, Woodside, Thornton Heath and Croydon, 2 November 1912.
3 Building Committee Minutes, 1, 29 October, 20 December, 1910; 6 January, 13 February, 20 February, 21February, 28 February, 6 March 1911. Penge congregational church.
4 J. M. Young, Some Notes on the History and Buildings of Penge Congregational Church, undated, unpaginated typescript, author’s possession.
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9 Quoted ibid p 79.
10 The foundation stone was laid on 1 July 1824 by Lord Breadalbane, taking thè place of the duke of Clarence. The church cost over £21,000 and was demolished after major damage in the second world war.
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14 Religious Republics[: Six Essays on Congregationalism] (London 1869) preface.
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21 George Baines’s early work was in Lancashire in the 1870s. By the mid 1880s he had offices in Accrington and Great Winchester Street, London. By the late 1890s, he was in Clement’s Inn. By the 1920s George Baines and Son were at 121 Victoria Street, SW1. Between 1885 and 1914 over 60 Baines designs were described in the Baptist Handbook, their last church, Brighton Road, Newhaven, appearing in B[aptist] H[andbook] (1938) p 364.
22 B H(1904) p 383.
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25 BH (1890) p 364; (1888) p 342.
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