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Location: St Mary the Boltons, Kensington, Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom. (51.4892°N 0.1841°W).
Website: www.stmarytheboltons.org.uk
Phone: +44 20 7835 1440
St Mary the Boltons, Kensington
St Mary the Boltons is an Anglican church in The Boltons, Brompton, London. It is a Grade II listed building.
History of St Mary the Boltons, Kensington:
The Boltons, a street in Brompton, was farmland until the middle of the 19th century. As part of westward expansion of London the land was developed by Robert Gunter the elder, who planned a residential estate, together with a church – to lend tone to the area. The church, built to a design by George Godwin the younger (who was also responsible for St Jude's, Courtfield Gardens, and St Luke's, Redcliffe Square) on land given by Gunter in the centre of the proposed development, was erected before the estate was built and was the first parish to be made out of the larger parish of Holy Trinity, Brompton, which since 1829 had covered much of Brompton. The cost of the church was £6,000 (£540,000 as of 2013), and the Church Building Commission gave a grant of £85 towards its construction. It was consecrated on 22 October 1850. The church's first incumbent, Rev. Hogarth J. Swale, met most of the building costs of the church. In July 2006 St Mary's Parish absorbed the parish of St Jude's, Courtfield Gardens, doubling its size.
