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St John's Church, Stanmore
The new St John's church was built as the old structure has become unsafe. The old church is now slightly ruined, but well maintained.
This picture was taken from within the ruin of the old church. Access is allowed to the public for limited times during the summer months
Image: © Declan Galvin
Taken: 22 Jul 2006
0.13 miles
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Path off Gordon Avenue
This path leads through to some new flats. Temple Pond is off to the right.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 11 Nov 2015
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Stanmore: Temple Pond
Temple Pond was once a fish pond in the Stanmore Park estate, created by damming up the Stanburn Stream. The distant grey metal structure in the shadows is the outlet sluice.
Image: © Nigel Cox
Taken: 3 Jul 2011
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Old Stanmore Church and churchyard
There are two churches in Stanmore Churchyard. The old one was consecrated in 1632 by Archbishop Laud. The new church was begun in 1849 and contains much of the furnishings of the old church.
Ian Nairn in Nairn's London (1966) says "Behind a mean-minded Victorian church, the ruins of the old one are dissolving away in gentle melancholy. It was built in 1631 by Archbishop Laud to be the old religion revived, very Gothic, though using up-to-date bricks. Now it is roofless, with a mouldering Victorian tomb in the nave, and a triste churchyard around. But lovable, not horrible: bramble and roses growing up to the walls and over the mass-produced headstones; soft, tender dissolution, the kind of end that most people would wish for... Long may it stay so. Gray's Elegy should have been written here, instead of at Stoke Poges."
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 11 Nov 2015
0.14 miles
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Flowers in the churchyard of the old church at Stanmore
There are two churches in Stanmore Churchyard. The old one was consecrated in 1632 by Archbishop Laud. The new church was begun in 1849 and contains much of the furnishings of the old church - see Link
Ian Nairn in Nairn's London (1966) says "Behind a mean-minded Victorian church, the ruins of the old one are dissolving away in gentle melancholy. It was built in 1631 by Archbishop Laud to be the old religion revived, very Gothic, though using up-to-date bricks. Now it is roofless, with a mouldering Victorian tomb in the nave, and a triste churchyard around. But lovable, not horrible: bramble and roses growing up to the walls and over the mass-produced headstones; soft, tender dissolution, the kind of end that most people would wish for... Long may it stay so. Gray's Elegy should have been written here, instead of at Stoke Poges."
See also https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7144853
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 11 Apr 2022
0.14 miles
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Graves, St John's Churchyard, Rectory Lane, Stanmore
Image: © Robin Sones
Taken: 17 Sep 2014
0.14 miles
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St John's Church, Stanmore
A short history of Stanmore's old and new parish churches , on this wall panel inside the ruined old church.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 25 May 2011
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St John the Evangelist, Great Stanmore: inside the ruined old church
The ruined brick church here served as the parish church of Great Stanmore from the mid-seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth, when it was replaced by a Victorian building that shares the same churchyard.
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 22 Sep 2016
0.14 miles
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Old Stanmore Church
There are two churches in Stanmore Churchyard. The old one was consecrated in 1632 by Archbishop Laud. The new church was begun in 1849 and contains much of the furnishings of the old church.
Ian Nairn in Nairn's London (1966) says "Behind a mean-minded Victorian church, the ruins of the old one are dissolving away in gentle melancholy. It was built in 1631 by Archbishop Laud to be the old religion revived, very Gothic, though using up-to-date bricks. Now it is roofless, with a mouldering Victorian tomb in the nave, and a triste churchyard around. But lovable, not horrible: bramble and roses growing up to the walls and over the mass-produced headstones; soft, tender dissolution, the kind of end that most people would wish for... Long may it stay so. Gray's Elegy should have been written here, instead of at Stoke Poges."
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 11 Nov 2015
0.14 miles
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Flowers in the churchyard of the old church at Stanmore
There are two churches in Stanmore Churchyard. The old one was consecrated in 1632 by Archbishop Laud. The new church was begun in 1849 and contains much of the furnishings of the old church - see Link
Ian Nairn in Nairn's London (1966) says "Behind a mean-minded Victorian church, the ruins of the old one are dissolving away in gentle melancholy. It was built in 1631 by Archbishop Laud to be the old religion revived, very Gothic, though using up-to-date bricks. Now it is roofless, with a mouldering Victorian tomb in the nave, and a triste churchyard around. But lovable, not horrible: bramble and roses growing up to the walls and over the mass-produced headstones; soft, tender dissolution, the kind of end that most people would wish for... Long may it stay so. Gray's Elegy should have been written here, instead of at Stoke Poges."
See also https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7144853
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 11 Apr 2022
0.14 miles