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Long life

A glimpse of an older, kinder Chelsea

St Luke's church hails from a very different time

2 April 2016

9:00 AM

2 April 2016

9:00 AM

The Parish Church of St Luke in Sydney Street, Chelsea, is enormous. Vaguely reminiscent of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, it was built in the 1820s to accommodate a congregation of 2,500 people and was one of the earliest Gothic Revival churches in London, with a higher nave than any church in the capital other than St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey.

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