Jewin Welsh Presbyterian Chapel

The Jewin Welsh Presbyterian Chapel (Welsh: Eglwys Gymraeg Jewin) is a Presbyterian Church of Wales church in Clerkenwell, London, England.

The current building was opened on 22 June 1961 on a site adjoining the Golden Lane Estate. It replaced a chapel built in 1878–9 on the same site, destroyed in World War II air raids in September 1940. The congregation had moved here in 1879 from nearby Jewin Crescent, a site now incorporated into the Barbican. The Jewin Crescent chapel had opened in 1822, following a move from Wilderness Row, Clerkenwell. The first services had taken place in c. 1774 in Cock Lane, Smithfield. The current building was designed by Caroe and Partners in a Swedish-inspired form of modern architecture sometimes called the New Humanism. It has a traditional chapel interior with four-sided gallery and a Compton organ.^[1]

After a dramatic fall in the congregation, in 2013 London-based BBC News presenter Huw Edwards agreed to lead a campaign to save the building and the chapel, to keep the traditions of the London Welsh community alive. Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones choose the campaign as his input to BBC Wales Today for Children In Need 2013.^[2]

References

1. Paul Smith (4 May 2006). Walking the Tube – the Hammersmith & City Line. Lulu.com. ISBN 978-1411697072.
2. "Huw Edwards leads campaign to save Jewin Presbyterian Church". BBC Wales. 18 November 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2013.

External links

• Capeli Cymraeg Llundain
• Capel Jewin