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Jewin Welsh Presbyterian Chapel

20th-century Presbyterian churchesBuildings and structures in ClerkenwellChurches completed in 1960Churches in the London Borough of IslingtonEnglish people of Welsh descent
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St Lukes, Presbyterian Church of Wales (geograph 3861725)
St Lukes, Presbyterian Church of Wales (geograph 3861725)

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 in 1960 on a site adjoining the Golden Lane Estate. It replaced a chapel built in 1878–1879 on the same site, destroyed in World War II air raids in September 1940. The congregation had moved there 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. 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 chose the campaign as his input to BBC Wales Today for Children in Need 2013.

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Jewin Welsh Presbyterian Chapel
Fann Street, City of London

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EC1Y 0SA City of London (London Borough of Islington)
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