St Paul's, Cambridge facts for kids
Quick facts for kids St Paul's, Cambridge |
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Parish Church of St Paul, Cambridge | |
St Paul's from Hills Road
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52°11′51″N 0°07′46″E / 52.197586°N 0.129446°E | |
Location | Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1JP |
Country | United Kingdom |
Denomination | Church of England |
Website | www.stpaulscambridge.org.uk |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) | Ambrose Poynter, H. G. Elborne, Temple Moore |
Years built | 1841 |
Administration | |
Parish | St. Paul, Cambridge |
Deanery | Cambridge South Deanery |
Archdeaconry | Archdeaconry of Cambridge |
Diocese | Diocese of Ely |
Province | Province of Canterbury |
St Paul's, Cambridge is a Church of England parish church situated 0.8 miles (1.3 km) to the south east of the city centre of Cambridge, on the corner of St Paul's Road with Hills Road. St Paul's is part of the Cambridge South Deanery in the Anglican Diocese of Ely. The church is a Grade II Listed Building. and has a place in the history of the Gothic Revival due to criticism from the Cambridge Camden Society in the first issue of The Ecclesiologist. The vicar is Michael Beckett.
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History
Charles Perry, later first Anglican Bishop of Melbourne, was the first Vicar of St Paul's, 1842-47. Perry had bought the advowson for the living of St Andrew-the-Less, and instigated the construction of Christ Church, Barnwell in 1839, as well as St Paul's. Perry was a "stout evangelical clergyman, equally opposed to ritualistic and rationalistic tendencies." In retirement, he was one of the founders of Ridley Hall
According to Bray, St Paul's was a conventional district in the parish of St Andrew-the-Less from 24 October 1842, and became a new parish in its own right on 4 July 1845, when it acquired some of the parish of St Andrew the Great.
Architecture
Historic England designates the church a Grade II Listed Building for these main reasons:
- "Church of 1841 by Ambrose Poynter, with later additions."
- "Historically significant as one of the new churches harshly criticised in the first issue of the Ecclesiologist, an important publication of the Gothic Revival but which possesses visual interest in its own right."
- "The interior, in spite of reordering and change, retains spatial interest and some fixtures of note, particularly stained glass windows, and Temple Moore's work of the 1890s."
The nave and west tower were built in 1841 at cost of £5766 paid by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, to designs of Ambrose Poynter. Poynter designed two other churches in Cambridge: Christ Church Cambridge (1839) and St Andrew the Great (1842-3).
Poynter's original "design was vilified in the first issue of the Ecclesiologist by the Cambridge Camden Society in November 1841, for its lack of a chancel, for the use of brick instead of stone, and for the unornamented, late C16 or early C17 style." The Cambridge Camden Society was established in 1839 for the study of "ecclesiastical antiquities". The committee of the society published The Ecclesiologist from 1841 to 1868, arguing that architects should adopt a religious stance in their work. The design was criticised because its "style of architecture and plan of internal arrangement should have been after some approved ancient model." The following quotation (from the second edition of 1843) gives a taste of the article.
But there are many arrangements and details in this church which are on every other ground quite indefensible, even on the ground of cheapness. Such are the huge clock; the disproportionate octagonal Turrets; the great four-centered Belfry windows without cusping or mouldings; the figures 1 8 4 1 in the spandrils of the clock; the square clerestory-windows; the enormous windows in the Aisles; the mullions made to stand on the same plane as the wall; the square heads; the want of foliation; the jambs without mouldings; the graduated parapet of the Nave; the thin mullions and tracery of the east windows, the difference between the supports of the western and the other galleries; the startling contrast of the red brick and the white quoins of dressed ashlar; the trellis-work of black bricks; and many other things which time forbids us to notice.
The critique in the second edition is toned down, however, following objections from senior church leaders to the first edition. Still, Augustus Pugin reprinted the original in his Present State of Ecclesiastical Architecture (1842–43), and suggested it be circulated as a warning Beware of the Camden, to be "hung up in terrorem in every church-competing architect's office".
The chancel and vestry are additions of 1864, perhaps by H. G. Elborne. North and south transepts are additions to the nave in 1893, to designs of Temple Moore.
The interior became a multi-use space in 1996, designed by Freeland Rees-Roberts. Meeting rooms and porch were added 2012-13.
The building features these stained glass windows:
- East window 'Conversion of St Paul', by Alfred Wilkinson, 1960
- Chancel North window, after Holman Hunt, by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, 1906
- South transept East window, by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, 1920
The former parsonage, built in St Paul's Road behind the church 1853-4, was designed by George Gilbert Scott for the then vicar, his brother, John Scott; it is now the Cambridge Muslim College.
Today
The Vicar is Michael Beckett. He is the author of Gospel in Esther, a typological reading of the Book of Esther. The book is based on a series of sermons, in which Beckett interprets Esther herself as a female exemplar of Christ. In a foreword to the book, Stephen Sykes, a former Bishop of Ely, describes St Paul's as a "parish church long noted for its attentiveness to the work of preaching".
The Associate Priest is Jon Canessa. He studied at Ridley Hall and completed training for ordination at Westcott House. Alongside his role as Associate Priest, he is the Bishop's Officer for Homelessness and chairs the Cambridge Churches Homeless Project.
List of clergy
The following list of clergy is extracted from the record of all clergy of the Diocese of Ely compiled by Gerald Bray. Following Bray's scheme, an "R" beside the date of termination means that the clergy resigned, retired or removed to another parish.
From | Perpetual Curate | To | Notes |
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1842/10/24 | Charles Perry | 1847/05/14 | R Curate in charge from 1842/10/24; then Perpetual Curate from 1845/01/02. Afterwards first Anglican Bishop of Melbourne |
1847/05/30 | John Scott | 1862/07/30 | R Brother of George Gilbert Scott |
1863/01/08 | Henry Hall | 1890/11/06 | R |
From | Vicar | To | Notes |
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1891/01/10 | Henry Paine Stokes | 1917/11/20 | R |
1918/01/21 | Johnston Carnegie Brown | 1928/09/10 | R |
1928/10/11 | John Arthur Gibson Ainley | 1937/03/04 | R |
1937/04/07 | Gerard William Joseph Gregson | 1944/06/30 | R |
1944/10/03 | William Hooker Rowdon | 1947/08/21 | R |
1948/04/08 | Kenneth Howard Hooker | 1958/05/16 | R |
1958/06/21 | Herbert Moore Carson | 1965/02/16 | R
Herbert Carson (1922-2003) graduated from Trinity College Dublin and was ordained in the Church of Ireland; he was Vicar of St Paul's for seven years from 1958, having been Vicar of St Michael's, Blackheath Park, London, during 1953-1958. He resigned the living of St Paul's in December 1964, and seceded from Anglicanism, because of misgivings about liturgy, Establishment, bishops, and infant baptism. Subsequently, he was baptised as a believing adult with his wife Delphine. He assisted Martyn Lloyd-Jones at Westminster Chapel London, before becoming minister of Hamilton Road Baptist Church, Bangor, in 1967. He was chairman of Evangelical Press, Darlington, during the 1970s. In 1982, he moved to become minister of Knighton Evangelical Free Church, Leicester, and retired in 1988. |
1965/06/21 | John Gwyn Joseph Gwyn-Thomas | 1977/11/21 | |
1978/09/19 | Michael Robert Wedlake Farrer | 1992/07/31 | R Rural Dean of Cambridge (1984–89); Honorary Canon of Ely Cathedral (1988–92); subsequently Senior Chaplain to the Bishop of Ely (1992–95). |
1993/03/02 | Michael Shaun Beckett | Priest in charge from 1993/03/02; then Vicar from 1994/09/11. |
From | Assistant Curate | To | Notes | ||||
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1846/01/19 | John Young Nicholson | 1858/06/06 | R | ||||
1858/11/14 | Frederic Edward Wigram | 1863/03/05 | R | ||||
1859/06/19 | William Saumarez Smith | 1861/09/30 | R | ||||
1865/10/25 | Richard Judd | 1868/10/04 | R | ||||
1868/12/20 | Joseph Cullin | 1870/09/30 | R | ||||
1869/10/01 | David Arthur Williams | 1870/06/30 | R | ||||
1870/12/18 | Algernon Howell Smith | 1873/09/30 | R | ||||
1873/07/28 | Daniel Beales Redfarn Banham | 1876/12/31 | R | ||||
1875/05/23 | Henry Paine Stokes | 1876/12/31 | R | ||||
1877/02/21 | George Archer | 1877/07/15 | R | ||||
1877/07/16 | Thomas Ivens | 1878/01/28 | R | ||||
1877/12/07 | Henry William Fulford | 1880/12/31 | R | ||||
1878/12/22 | William Warren | 1880/12/31 | R | ||||
1891/11/03 | Henry Wilmot Watson | 1900/04/15 | R | ||||
1900/07/26 | John Merrin | 1906/04/15 | R | ||||
1906/12/10 | James Turkington | 1907/03/31 | R | ||||
1907/12/13 | Claude Herbert Grant Cowen | 1912/01/31 | R | ||||
1911/12/17 | James Yorke Batley | 1913/09/14 | R | ||||
1912/07/24 | Frederick George Marriott | 1915/09/30 | R | ||||
1915/10/01 | Reginald Percy Crabbe | 1915/10/31 | R Never licensed. He was bishop of Mombasa from 1936 to 1953. | ||||
1916/10/02 | George Frederick Saywell | 1919/11/24 | R | ||||
1919/03/07 | John Hilton | 1920/12/05 | R | ||||
1922/03/20 | John Crawford Trotter | 1924/06/30 | R | ||||
1924/09/21 | Edward Stanley Fellowes Farrow | 1927/03/31 | R | ||||
1928/01/14 | Archibald Maclulich Maclulich | 1929/08/02 | R | ||||
1932/10/22 | Arthur Hamilton Paget Wilkes | 1933/07/02 | R | ||||
1935/12/15 | Gordon Hyslop | 1937/04/11 | R | ||||
1938/04/07 | William George Lee | 1944/08/31 | R | ||||
1945/04/30 | Alwyn Cobb | 1950/02/28 | R | ||||
1949/09/28 | Lawrence Davies | 1954/02/09 | R | ||||
1953/05/29 | Bruce Douglas Reed | 1954/07/31 | R | ||||
1953/06/14 | Harold Geoffrey Platt | 1956/03/31 | R | ||||
1954/11/29 | Cuthbert Mark Ruston | 1955/05/12 | R Subsequently Vicar of Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge | ||||
1957/06/16 | David Charles Knight | 1958/09/20 | R | ||||
1958/09/21 | John Geoffrey Sharpe | 1961/03/08 | |||||
1961/05/28 | John Roger Bowen | 1965/09/30 | R | ||||
1965/09/19 | Rupert Hamish Studd | 1970/08/31 | R | ||||
1968/10/06 | Peter Ernest Dale | 1971/04/30 | R | ||||
1971/06/27 | David Douglas Sceats | 1974/08/31 | R | ||||
1975/06/29 | Henry Butler | 1977/05/04 | R | ||||
1981/06/28 | Roger William Morgan | 1984/06/28 | R NSM | ||||
1987/04/04 | Diane Beverley Lammas | 1990/04/04 | - | 2000/07/01 | Christopher John Rose | 2011/12/31 | R NSM |
2013/09/09 | Jonathan Graham Canessa | ||||||
2019/06/30 | Sophie Alexandra Young | 2019/07/11 | } |