St Anne's Church - Laxton Place, London, UK
N 51° 31.552 W 000° 08.522
30U E 698248 N 5712178
St Anne's Roman Catholic Church is not currently in use. It stands at the corner of Laxton Place and Longford Street and is unusual in that it is a round building.
Waymark Code: WMJNVC
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/10/2013
Views: 1
Wikipedia tells us about the church:
St Anne's is a Roman Catholic
church in Laxton Place near Regent's Park in London. The church was
constructed in 1970 but fell into disuse at the turn of the 21st century.
There had been a school chapel in Little Albany Street since 1857, replaced
in 1938 by a new church in Seaton Place. The redevelopment of the area in
the 1960s included provision for a new church on the corner of Laxton Place
and Longford Street. Cardinal Heenan laid the foundation stone on 30 May
1970 and the church opened later that year.
The UK's small Chaldean community started worshipping in the church in 1991
under Right Rev Andreas Abouna. Worship continued until at least 2003, but
the church had closed by 2011.
The church was designed by Scott and Jaques. It has curving walls of dark
brick, broken up by 17 tall windows. Trusses of prestressed concrete support
a copper roof. The altar is stone, but the rest of the furnishings are
wooden.
The Roman Catholic Church has proposed that St Anne's be used as the
principal church of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham for
former Anglicans. Damian Thompson, the religious affairs commentator for the
Daily Telegraph and a prominent supporter of the ordinariate, has rejected
this proposal and has described St Anne's as a "cross between a public
lavatory and a Christian Science Reading Room". Thompson prefers that St
Etheldreda's Church in Ely Place, the only medieval Roman Catholic church in
London, be used by the ordinariate.
Type of Church: Church
Status of Building: Building converted to another use
Date of building construction: 05/30/1970
Dominant Architectural Style: Modern
Diocese: Westminster
Address/Location: Laxton Place Camden London, United Kingdom
Relvant Web Site: [Web Link]
Date of organization: Not listed
Associated Shrines, Art, etc.: Not listed
Archdiocese: Not listed
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