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Ravenswood Avenue, West Wickham
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 11 Jul 2013
0.08 miles
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St Francis church: hall
The hall dates from 1960 and is adjacent to the church.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 5 Aug 2014
0.09 miles
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West Wickham: church of St Francis of Assisi, foundation stone and notice
The foundation stone was laid in 1935 by Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 11 Jul 2013
0.09 miles
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West Wickham: church of St Francis of Assisi
An unusual dedication for an Anglican church.
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 11 Jul 2013
0.09 miles
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St Francis church: east end
The church building dates from 1935; this is the original east end and tower, with the 1970s north aisle and ancillary rooms to the right.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 5 Aug 2014
0.10 miles
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St Francis church: foundation stone
The date is 5 October 1935; dedication was by the then archbishop of Canterbury, as the parish was then in Canterbury Diocese (since c.1985 it has been in Southwark).
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 5 Aug 2014
0.10 miles
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St Francis church: internal view
Looking from the back of the nave towards the east window.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 5 Aug 2014
0.10 miles
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St Francis church: chancel
The east end (chancel) of the church, with portable communion table, choir stalls and high altar.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 5 Aug 2014
0.10 miles
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St Francis church: new east window
The east window features stained glass designed and made by Andrew Taylor and dedicated by the Bishop of Croydon on 3rd October 2010.
The words bottom left are a quotation from the prophet Micah "What does the Lord require of you but to act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with your God". The words bottom right are, fittingly, from St Francis, "For it is giving that we receive, in pardoning that we are pardoned, and in dying that we are born to eternal life".
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 5 Aug 2014
0.10 miles
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St Francis church: bell tower
The tower contains 8 bells which are rung as a carillon (hammers operated by a keyboard), not by the traditional method of full-circle ringing with ropes.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 5 Aug 2014
0.10 miles