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Our Most Holy Redeemer, Clerkenwell
Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer
Clerkenwell, Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer - geograph.org.uk - 1311476.jpg
Location Clerkenwell, Islington, London
Country England
Denomination Church of England
Churchmanship Traditional Catholic
History
Status Active
Dedication Christ the Redeemer
Architecture
Functional status Parish church
Heritage designation Grade II* listed
Designated 29 December 1950
Architect(s) John Dando Sedding
Style Italianate
Completed 1888
Administration
Deanery Islington
Archdeaconry Hackney
Episcopal area Stepney
Diocese London
Province Canterbury

Our Most Holy Redeemer is a late 19th-century church in Clerkenwell, London, England, by the architect John Dando Sedding. It is an Anglo-Catholic church in the Diocese of London of the Church of England. It is at the junction of Exmouth Market and Rosebery Avenue in the London Borough of Islington. The church with attached clergy house, campanile, and parish hall is a Grade II*-listed building.

History

This Italianate church was built in 1888 to the designs of J. D. Sedding, and completed, after his death, by his assistant Henry Wilson, 1892–95. The church, which was built in the grounds of the former Spa Fields Chapel, originally comprised just the building on the left in the illustration, the campanile tower and clergy house on the right being added in 1906. The inscription on the cornice of the original structure reads Christo Liberatori translated as 'To Christ The Redeemer'.

The interior of the church, including the baldacchino, was modelled upon Brunelleschi's Santo Spirito, Florence. Sculptural carving to the interior is by F. W. Pomeroy.

Present day

The Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer is within the Traditional Catholic tradition of the Church of England and receives alternative episcopal oversight from the Bishop of Fulham (currently Jonathan Baker).

Gallery

  • Church of our Most Holy Redeemer - Borough of Islington - London - August 11th 2014 - 7

    Side of the church

  • Tower of the Church of Our Holy Redeemer Clerkenwell, Exmouth Market EC1 - geograph.org.uk - 1386485

    Tower of the church

  • Church of our Most Holy Redeemer - Borough of Islington - London - August 11th 2014 - 4

    Alternative view of the front of the church

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