Whitefields Tabernacle - Leonard Street, London, UK
N 51° 31.482 W 000° 05.132
30U E 702172 N 5712203
Whitefield's Tabernacle, or Moorfields Tabernacle, is a former church at the corner of Tabernacle Street and Leonard Street in London.
Waymark Code: WMGWG8
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/16/2013
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The cornerstone, on the Tabernacle
Street side of the building, reads:
Near this
spot
stood the Tabernacle bult by
The Rev'd George Whitefield in
1753
115 years afterwards it was taken down
and in its place
this
building was erected.
This stone was
laid
by J Remington Mills Esq're M.P.
on the 11th of September
1868.
Rev'd W
Grigsby
Pastor
Chas G Searle and Son
Architects
Dove
Brothers
Builders
Wikipedia tells us:
"Whitefield's Tabernacle,
Moorfields (also known as Moorfields Tabernacle) is a former church at the
corner of Tabernacle Street and Leonard Street, Moorfields, London, England. The
first church on the site was a wooden building erected by followers of the
evangelical preacher George Whitefield in 1741. This was replaced by a brick
building in 1753. John Wesley preached a sermon "On the death of the Rev Mr
George Whitefield" both here and at Whitefield's Tabernacle, Tottenham Court
Road in 1770.
The church was rebuilt in stone
over a century later in 1868, to a robust Gothic design by C.G. Searle &
Son. Immediately west of the church itself a Sunday School was built. The
foundation stone of the 1868 building reads: "Near this spot stood the
Tabernacle built by the Rev. George Whitefield in 1753: 115 years afterward it
was taken down and in its place this building was erected."
In 1907 a successor church opened
near Alexandra Park, north London: this was known initially as Whitefield
Tabernacle, but from 1922 as Alexandra Park Congregational Church. Many members
of the Moorfields congregation transferred their allegiance, and numerous
benefactions were also transferred. The Moorfields Tabernacle building was taken
over by the nearby Central Foundation Boys' Grammar School. The Alexandra Park
church was converted into flats in 2004."
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