St Anne's Church - Laxton Place, London, UK
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Master Mariner
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
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Dorcadion Team
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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