Churches and Other Houses of Worship in the U. K. and its Colonies with Victorian Interest (original) (raw)

"(V)" indicates a Victorian photograph or engraving; "(P)" indicates a Victorian or Edwardian postcard. The index is alphabetised by architect, where given, or by name of church (ignoring "St."). Only some samples of the major architects' churches are given here, so please check also on their individual webpages. — JB

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Churches by Sir Arthur Blomfield

• St. Alban's Church, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1885
• St. Andrew's Church, 1872
• St. Mary Magdalene Church, Richmond, Surrey. North and south aisles altered and open timber roofs added, 1866

Churches by A. W. N. Pugin

• Sitemap with numerous examples
• Cathedral of St Barnabas, Nottingham (1841-44)
• St Chad's, Birmingham
• St. George's Roman Catholic Cathedral, London (1841-48; many views)
• St. Giles, Cheadle (1841-46; many views)
• St. Mary's Cathedral, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1842-44)
• St. Oswald's, Liverpool (1839-42)

Churches by Sir George Gilbert Scott

• (with Baron Grimthorpe) restoration of St Albans Cathedral and Abbey Church, Hertfordshire (1856-93)
• Bath Abbey Restoration (2 views)
• Cathedral Church of St Deiniol, Bangor, N. Wales (restoration)
• Holy Trinity Church, Westcott, Surrey, 1851-52 (2 views)
• St John's College Chapel, University of Cambridge, 1863-69 (3 views)
• King's College Chapel, University of London, 1864 (11 views)
• St. Mary's, Harrow on the Hill (restoration, 1846)
• St. Mary Abbot's Church, Kensington (1872; 3 images)
• St Oswald's, Ashbourne (restoration, 1873, and 1876-78)
• The Cathedral (Trinity Church), Shanghai, China
• Christ Church Anglican Cathedral, New Zealand

Churches by George Edmund Street

• The American Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Paris
• The Crimean Memorial: Christ Church, Istanbul, Turkey
• St. James the Less, Westminster
• St. John's Church, Torquay
• St. Mary the Virgin Church, Holmbury St. Mary, Surrey (1879)
• St. Paul's within the Walls, Rome (1873; 7 images)

Churches by William White

• Lyndhurst Parish Church
• St Saviour, Aberdeen Park, London
• All Saints, Notting Hill, London

Churches and Houses of Worship by Other Architects

• Abbey Church of St Mary and St Ethelflaeda, Romsey, Hampshire

• St Andrew's, Stockwell Green, London (many views)

• St. Andrew's Church, Clevedon, Somersetshire. Burial place of Arthur Henry Hallam, 4 images

• Ashbourne Methodist Church, Derbyshire

• St Mary, Bishophill Junior, York (restored by) J. B. and W. Atkinson

• St Paul, Holgate Road, York, by J. B. and W. Atkinson

• St Paul, Heslington, York, by J. B. and W. Atkinson

• Sidney Barnsley's Lower Kingswood Church, Surrey (1891 onwards)

• W. J. Barre's University Road Methodist Church (1864-65)

• Basett Keeling’s St. Andrew’s (formerly All Saint’s) Church, Camberwell

• John Francis Bentley's Westminster Cathedral (1895-1902)

• Edward Blore's Church of St. Thomas Charterhouse, 1842

• Edward Blore's Christ Church, Chelsea, 1839

• G. F. Bodley's Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road, London

• G. F. Bodley's St Michael's and All Angels, Brighton (with a major extension by William Burges)

• John Bowden's St. George's, Belfast

• James Brooks's All Hallows, Gospel Oak

• James Brooks's Church of St. Andrew, Plaistow, Essex

• James Brooks's St John the Baptist, Holland Road (many views)

• Buccleuch and Greyfriars Free Church of Scotland, Edinburgh

• William Burges's All Saints, Fleet, Hampshire

• William Butterfield's All Saints, Margaret Street (many views)

• Carlisle Cathedral

• Richard Cromwell Carpenter's St. Paul's Parish Church, Brighton (many views)

• J.A. Chatwin's St Augustine of Hippo, Edgbaston

• J. A. Chatwin's Chancel, St Philip's Cathedral< Birmingham

• J. A. Chatwin's St Martin's, Birmingham

• Henry Clutton and J.F. Bentley's St Francis of Assisi, Notting Hill, London (many views)

• John Corry's Elmwood Presbyterian Church, Belfast (3 views)

• Cory and Ferguson's St Bride, Bridekirk, Cumbria

• Thomas Cundy's St Barnabas, Pimlico (many views)

• St. David's Cathedral (Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi), Wales

• Sir Thomas Drew's St. Anne's Cathedral (3 images) Oak (many views)

• St Edith's Church, Bishop Wilton, East Riding of Yorkshire

• Church of the English Martyrs, Streatham (Roman Catholic )

• George Felton's Holy Trinity (1874), Llandudno, N. Wales (many views)

• J. C. Ferguson's St James, Tebay, Cumbria

• Benjamin Ferrey's Christ Church (1853), Esher, Surrey (many views)

• St. George's Church, Esher, Surrey (the church that the Queen attended during her earlier visits to Surrey; many views)

• St George's Church, West End, Esher

• John Gibson's St Margaret's, Bodelwyddan, Clywdd (the Marble Church)

• A. D. Gough's Church of St Jude (and St Paul), Mildmay Grove, Islington, N. London (many views)

• Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge

• Herbert Gribble's Brompton Oratory (1880-93); 2 images

• R. C. Hakewill’s Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Hackney

• William Hallett's Church of St. John the Baptist (RC), Brighton

• Joseph Hansom's Arundel Cathedral (Roman Catholic) dedicated to Our Lady and St Philip Howard, West Sussex (1873)

• Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, Belfast

• Thomas Jackson's St. Malachy's Church, Belfast (1844) 5 views

• St James's Church (Church Kirk), Hyndburn, Lancashire

• St John the Baptist, Cardiff

• St Matthew's Church, Bayswater by John Johnson

• Inigo Jones's St. Paul's, Covent Garden (renovated by Thomas Hardwick, 1788; altered by William Butterfield, 1871)

• W. H. Knight's St Andrew's, Moreton-on-Lugg, Herefordshire

• Lanchester & Rickards's Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Curzon Street

• William Leiper's Dowanhill Church

• Lincoln Cathedral

• Sarah Losh's St Mary's, Wreay (many views)

• John Lowe's St. Luke’s Church, Weaste, near Manchester

• St. Luke’s Church, Chorton-on-Medlock, Manchester

• St Mary Magdalene, Littleton, Surrey

• St Mary Magdalene, Geddington, Northamptonshire

• John Warrington Morris’s Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Bromley

• Joseph Morris and Sons' Agapemonite Church of the Ark of the Covenant, Upper Clapton, London (now a Georgian Orthodox Cathedral Church) (many views)

• The Cathedral Church of St Nicholas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Victorian restoration and expansion)

• St Raphael's Roman Catholic Church by Charles Parker

• St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin

• Joseph Peacock's Church of St Simon Zelotes (1858-59)

• Former St. Peter's Church — now St. Yeghiche's Armenian Church

• William Willmer Pocock's The Metropolitan Tabernacle

• John Prichard's St Catharine's, Baglan, Neath

• John Prichard's Llandaff Cathedral (many views)

• John Prichard's St Margaret of Antioch, Roath

• John Prichard's St Michael and All Angels, Torquay

• E. S. Prior's Holy Trinity (New) Church, Bothenhampton, Sunderland

• E. S. Prior's St Andrew's, Roker, Sunderland

• Rochester Cathedral (2 drawings)

• R. L. Roumieu and A. D. Gough, St Pancras Old Church (1847-48; 4 images)

• James Savage's St Luke's Church, Chelsea (many views)

• James Savage, Sydney Smirke, and Decimus Burton's restoration of Temple Church, the Inns of Court, London (many views)

• Edmund Scott's St Bartholomew's Church, Brighton (with work by Henry Wilson, many views)

• John Dando Sedding's Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street (1890; 19 views)

• John Dando Sedding's Our Most Holy Redeemer, Clerkenwell (1888; 8 views)

• John Shaw, St. Dunstan's in the West, Fleet Street, London (3 images)

• Trinity Church, Gray's Inn Road, London

• John Shaw, Senior, and John Shaw, Jr.'s St. Dunstan's in the West (3 images)

• Richard Norman Shaw's St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park, London (1887)

• Southwark Cathedral

• Sir Walter Tapper's Church of the Ascension, Malvern Link, Worcs.

• Sir Walter Tapper's St Mark's, Whiteley Village, nr. Walton-on-Thames, Surrey

• John Tarring's The Free Church, St Ives

• S. S. Teulon's St Mary's Church, Sunbury (many views)

• S. S. Teulon's St Stephen's. Hampstead

• Westminster Abbey

• Winchester Cathedral (9 views)

• R. J. Withers's St Mary the Virgin, Pimlico (many views)

• Henry Woodyer's St Martin's Church, Dorking, Surrey (1874; many images)

• Sir Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral (homepage in VW)

• Robert Young's The New Fisherwick Presbyterian Church (2 images)

• Young and MacKenzie's The Moravian Church (1887)

Chapels and Meeting Houses

• (Former) Congregational Chapel, Pocklington, Yorkshire, with façade by T. Brownlow Thompson
• (Former) Trinity Chapel, Peckitt St., York, by J. B. and W. Atkinson
• William Butterfield's Keble College, Oxford (1868-1882)
• Central Methodist Church (formerly Centenary Chapel), York
• Chapel, Balliol College, Oxford
• Chapel, Brasenose College, Oxford
• Chapel, Saint John's College, Oxford
• Primitive Methodist Chapel, Cumberworth, Lincolnshire
• Eton College Chapel (3 views)
• Friends Meeting House, Hampstead
• John W. Griffith, Anglican Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, London
• King's College, Cambridge, Chapel
• William, Earl of Lovelace's Horsley Towers, Surrey
• Methodist Central Hall, Westminster London
• Frederick Rowntree's Friends Meeting House, Hampstead
• Savoy Chapel, the Strand
• St. Stephen's Chapel, Houses of Parliament
• Mary Watts and others, Compton Cemetery Chapel
• King's Weigh House Chapel (7 views)
• Christopher Wren's Pembroke College Chapel

Public Halls used by Victorian Preachers

• Exeter Hall, the Strand, London
• Music Hall in the Royal Surrey Gardens (2 views)

Churches outside the United Kingdom

• Église Saint-Ambroise, Paris, France
• St. Andrews Cathedral (Singapore)
• Planned cathedral in Ballarat, Australia (1887)
• Basilica de Notre Dame de Fourvière, Lyon, France
• The Carmelite Church (Malta)
• Cathedral of the Good Shepherd (Singapore)
• Chapel, Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus (Singapore)
• Collegiate Church of St Peter and St Paul, Prague
• The English Church (Meiringen, Switzerland)
• St. George's Church (Malaysia)
• Church of Saint Gregory the Illuminator (Singapore)
• Christ Church (Shimla, India)
• St James's Church (Church Kirk), Hyndburn, Lancashire
• Cathedral of St. John's (Hong Kong)
• The Catholic Apostolic Church, Copenhagen, Denmark
• St John's Church, Kolkata: The Thackerays' Church
• The Madeleine (Paris)
• St. Mary's Cathedral (Malaysia)
• St. Mary's Cathedral (Sydney, Australia)
• St. Michael's Cathedral (Shimla, India)
• The church of Our Lady of Lourdes (Malta)
• St Patrick's Cathedral, New York, USA
• St Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata, India
• [See above for G. E. Street's St Paul's (Rome)
• Church of Sts. Peter and Paul (Singapore)
• St Philomena's Church (also known as St Joseph's Cathedral), Mysore, India
• St Vitus Cathedral, Prague

Non-Christian Houses of Worship: Mosques, Synagogues, and Temples

• George Audsley’s The New West End Synagogue, London
• The Bevis Marks Synagogue (1700), London
• H. H. Collins’s The New London Synagogue
• H. H. Collins’s Walworth Road Synagogue
• Davis and Emanuel’s West London Synagogue
• Hezekiah Marshall's The Old Synagogue, Canterbury
• Salomon’s Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue (now the Manchester Jewish Museum),
• Shah Jahan Mosque, Surrey
• The Western Synagogue, London

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