St Paul's, Old Ford

St Paul Old Ford
Church of St Paul Old Ford

51°31′59″N 0°1′57″W / 51.53306°N 0.03250°W / 51.53306; -0.03250Coordinates: 51°31′59″N 0°1′57″W / 51.53306°N 0.03250°W / 51.53306; -0.03250
Location	St Stephens Road Bow London E3 5JL
Country	United Kingdom
Denomination	Church of England
Website	www.stpauloldford.com
History
Founded	1878 (1878)
Associated people	Rev'd Philippa Boardman
Architecture
Heritage designation	Grade II listed
Administration
Deanery	Stepney
Archdiocese	Canterbury
Metropolis	London
Diocese	London

St Paul's, Old Ford is a late 19th-century church in Bow, London, England. It is an Anglican church in the Diocese of London.^[1]

History

St Paul's church was built in 1878 and is now adjacent to a primary school with over 650 children on the official school roll. In 1991, the building was closed due to maintenance and safety concerns. The Parochial Church Council (PCC) and the locals were determined to see that the church remained open and, in fact, was improved. The "A New Heart for Bow" project was born. More than £3,000,000 was raised from more than a dozen sources and philanthropies. Matthew Lloyd Architects was appointed to refurbish the building and enable it to serve the wider community as well as the church. Originally designed to seat 600 worshippers, the worship space was reordered, retaining original features and furnishings, to seat approximately 150. A 'building within a building' was inserted in the nave: a four-storey steel frame clad in tulipwood is supported on curving steel columns to sit above the worship space . Dubbed the Ark, this insertion in effect adds two new floors to accommodate flexible community spaces. In the attic, above the Ark, a ‘universal access’ gymnasium has been inserted along with an office and changing rooms. Balfour Beatty served as the main contractor, and work began in March 2003 and ended over a year later, in May 2004.^[1]

References

Pevsner Architectural Guides, London: East vol 5, ed Bridget Cherry, Yale University Press 2005

Architectural Voices: Listening to Old Buildings, David Littlefield and Saskia Lewis, John Wiley Publishers 2007

1 2 "St Paul's, Old Ford". Church of England webpage. Retrieved 21 September 2012.

Churches in Tower Hamlets

Ancient parish churches (pre-1800)	Christ Church, Spitalfields St Anne, Limehouse St Dunstan, Stepney St George in the East St John of Wapping St Katharine's by the Tower St Leonard, Bromley St Mary, Stratford-le-Bow St Mary Matfelon, Whitechapel St Matthew, Bethnal Green St Matthias Old Church, Poplar St Paul, Shadwell St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London

Anglican daughter churches	All Hallows, Bow All Saints, Poplar St Barnabas's, Bethnal Green St James-the-Less, Bethnal Green St John on Bethnal Green St John's Chapel, Tower of London St Paul, Bow Common St Paul's, Old Ford St Peter's, Bethnal Green St Peter, London Docks

Other denominations	St. Casimir's Lithuanian Church St George's German Lutheran Church Trinity Independent Chapel, Poplar

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