(Former) First Church of Christ Scientist

Architect: R. F. Chisholm (1840-1915)

Completed 1908

Sloane Terrace

South Kensington, London SW1

"A building of originality.... The style is a free Byzantine with oriental touches.... tall bell-tower with concave octagonal cupola set back behind curved, corbelled-out balustrades" (Cherry and Pevsner 561). Originally serving a congregation of 1,400, the church was used for its intended purpose until 1996, when its now smaller congregation moved elsewhere. [Commentary continues below.]

Photograph © Tim Glover, licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence. The image has been slightly corrected for perspective.

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