Ferry Road, "St Alban's Church"

"St Albans Church,Ferry Road

"St Albans Church Interior,Ferry Road

Road: Ferry Road

Property: "St Albans Church"

Former St Alban’s Church, Ferry Road, now the Landmark Arts Centre

Grade II* listed, this vast French Gothic style church building was never finished – witness the west end which looms, to some extent, over the east end of Teddington High Street. A tower should have completed the design. Known by some, perhaps rather grandly, as the ‘cathedral of the Thames valley’ it was built in late Victorian times - 1887-89 - to replace the smaller St Mary’s church opposite, but fell into disuse and disrepair in the 1970’s. Pevsner – in the ‘Buildings of England’ – describes it as ‘bewildering; in its size, with tall clerestory, flying buttresses, vaulted chancel, all of ashlar stone, ‘very high and very correct’.

The building was rescued and became the appropriately named Landmark Arts Centre in the 1995. See this link to their own website

                  http://www.landmarkartscentre.org/about-us/our-history.html  

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