MarkKelleher

By MarkKelleher

St Andrew's, Chelsea Park Gardens, London

There was a tiny chapel on this site from 1718 when the local landowner, Sir Richard Manningham, built a chapel for the growing village of Little Chelsea. The place was extended in 1812 and called Park Chapel.

Cyril Stanley and Charles Bannister, two rich local residents paid for a new church to be built in 1913.

It was designed by the mighty architect Arthur Blomfield who also designed the Royal College of Music in London, and oversaw the restoration of Salisbury Cathedral in 1898.

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