Name: St. Barnabas, Pimlico
Denomination: Anglican
Address: St. Barnabas Street. SW1W 8PF
Web Site: http://www.stbarnabaspimlico.com/
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Priest in Charge
Father John Pearson-Hicks
07540 062413
frhicks@me.com
Administrator
(Part-time / Wednesdays and Thursdays)
Daren Pearson-Hicks
darenadmin@icloud.com
07746 142 457.
For all bookings please email Daren.
Please visit the website for times of services and details of other events.
St. Barnabas’ Church has been serving people living on the borders of Belgravia, Chelsea and Pimlico since 1850 and is one of the most beautiful churches in London. It is a Grade 1 Listed Building that remains in the use for which it was intended – a place where the beauty of the Gospel is celebrated in word and sacrament.
Once a scene of ritual rioting, St. Barnabas Pimlico has an atmosphere of peace and prayer which inspires visitors and nourishes a warm and welcoming congregation.
“Riots in Pimlico!” . These were the headlines for weeks after the opening of the historic St Barnabas church in 1850. Although it was a Church of England, it was among the first of the Anglo-Catholic churches opened in London. Feelings against Roman Catholics were running high in the middle of the nineteenth century and locals, joined by rent-a-mob, interrupted services and heckled the packed congregation as they came and went.
The Times and Punch both ran campaigns against the church for its Popish practices, although this wasn’t much more than a couple of candles on the altar. It eventually led to ‘intervention by the Prime Minister, and the priest-in-charge offering his resignation to the Bishop of London.
St Barnabas, ‘planted’ by the wealthy St Paul’s Knightsbridge, originally served ‘a deplorable slum’ and Within a few years had a dozen priests working in two churches – St John the Baptist was a chapel built in Pimlico Road to cope with the overcrowding in St Barnabas. Now it serves a more elegant Parish and its 9.30arn Sunday morning congregation enjoy simple High Church worship with good hymns and a fine organ.
St Barnabas is full of pre-Raphaelite decoration with exquisite ceilings and a wonderful reredos behind the High Altar. There are some very fine mosaics on the walls above the Stations of the Cross and a number of colourful Kempe windows. Unlike so many churches of its kind, St Barnabas has never been refitted in the Baroque style, and over the generations it has been progressively enriched but never ‘restored’ in the interests of modernity.
Location
Off Pimlico Road by Mozart (Orange) Square, 400m south of St Mary’s Bourne Street
The Melkite Greek Catholic Church meet in St Barnabas
Enquiries please contact
Father Shafiq Abouzayd, parish priest
07977 495150
01865 514041
melkitelondon@gmail.com
Father Robert Gibbons, assistant parish priest
07760 252690
or see their website: www.melkite.uk