List of places of worship in London, 1804

This is a list of places of worship in London, 1804.

It is based on a list in A View of London, or, The Stranger's Guide through the British Metropolis (1804), headed "An Impartial List of the Principal Churches, Chapels, and Meeting-Houses". The choice lay in fact among Protestant places of worship. Some of the information was not quite current, ministers having died.

The Guide excluded Quaker meeting-houses. "Stranger churches", Roman Catholic chapels, and synagogues were listed in The Picture of London (1807).

Terminology at the time was variable: "meeting-house" and "chapel" were interchangeable, as were "Independent" and "congregational". Dissenters were usually classed under the "Three Denominations" (Presbyterian, Independent and Baptist). Methodists were sharply divided into the Calvinistic Methodists, who typically followed George Whitefield or preachers of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, and the Wesleyans. Unitarian congregations were only just being distinguished as anti-Trinitarians, from Arians. The New Jerusalem Church (Swedenborgians) was not included in the selections by the View.

A Place of worshipDenominationPreacher(s)Continuity and commentsSt Ann BlackfriarsAnglicanWilliam Goode the elder, PayneSt Antholin, Watling StreetAnglicanHenry Jerome de Salis (rector), Henry Draper (curate), George Bailey curate from 1808. The lecturers Draper, Wilkinson, Foster and Mann (a protégé of William Augustus Gunn) were suspected of sympathy with Methodism. A William Mann was lecturer in Bermondsey in 1831.Aldermary ChurchAnglicanWilkinsonAdelphi Chapel, Strand?congregationalAldermanbury Postern Meeting-houseThomas Towle, Joseph BarberAlie Street Meeting-house, Goodman's FieldsMorgan, Shenston, OatesJohn Brittain Shenston was initially a General Baptist.Artillery Street Meeting-house, BishopsgateUptonLater BaptistAll Hallows, Lombard StreetAnglicanWilliam Jarvis Abdy

B Place of worshipDenominationPreacher(s)Continuity and commentsBarbican Meeting-houseIndependentJohn TowersYounger brother of Joseph Towers. Secession from Jewin Street.Bartholomew Close Meeting-housePresbyterianWilliam BraithwaitBentinck Chapel, PaddingtonAnglicanBasil WooddBishopsgate Church (St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate)AnglicanSamuel CrowtherBow Church, Cheapside (St Mary Aldermary)AnglicanWJ AbdyBow Lane Meeting-houseSecession ChurchWilliam JermentDissenters' Chapel, Brentford ButtsNicholas T. HeinekenBury Street Meeting-house, St Mary AxeIndependentThomas BeckBeck succeeded Samuel Morton Savage in 1788. He was himself succeeded by Henry Heap.St Bartholomew's Meeting-house, West SmithfieldWatkins, MasonBattersea Meeting-houseBaptistJoseph HughesBethnal Green Meeting-houseCongregationalJohn KelloKello succeeded John Walker in 1771, was minister to 1827.

C Place of worshipDenominationPreacher(s)Continuity and commentsCamden Chapel, PeckhamAnglican foundation, Calvinistic MethodistFounded late 1790s as a chapel-of-ease.Chapel Street, SohoBaptistThomas StolleryStollery (Stollerie) was originally an assistant to John Trotter in Swallow Street, leaving with some of the congregation.Colliers Rents, Long Lane, SouthwarkIndependentJames KnightKnight from 1791; John Rogers from 1745 to c.1791.City Chapel, Grub StreetIndependentJohn BradfordBradford was an Independent, there 1797 to 1805; his successor was William Wales Horne, a Baptist.Carey Street Meeting-houseIndependentWilliam ThorpPredecessor Richard Winter; Thorp (1800–1805) was succeeded by Robert Winter. Congregation founded by Thomas Bradbury in 1728.Cumberland Street ChapelJohn BrownCalvinistic Methodist in the 1830s.City Road (Wesley's Chapel)Church Street Chapel, Mile End RoadCalvinist MethodistJohn CottinghamFounded as an Anglican chapel of ease, taken over by nonconformists by the 1790s; Cottingham was succeeded by George Evans in 1808.Carter Lane Meeting-house, Tooley StreetParticular BaptistJohn RipponPreceded by John Gill (died 1771).Carter Lane, St Paul'sEnglish PresbyterianTayler"...the most respectable meeting-house the dissenters have in the metropolis", according to the Anti-Jacobin. According to the Unitarian Historical Society, this was the origins of the congregation that in 1862 removed to Islington and in the 21st century became New Unity.Crown Court Meeting-house or Chapel, Covent GardenChurch of Scotland (Presbyterian)James StevenSteven was at the Crown Court Chapel from 1787 to 1803. Previously, William Cruden had been minister there, from 1773 to 1785. Steven was succeeded in 1805 by George Greig.Camomile Street Meeting-houseReynolds, Charles BuckBuck's congregation met there as a temporary measure, from 1802 to 1804, before moving to Wilson Street.Christ Church, SpitalfieldsAnglicanDavies, CecilChrist Church, Newgate StreetCrowderChurch Lane Meeting-house, WhitechapelD. TaylorClapham ChurchJohn VennClapham Meeting-houseBaptistJohn OvingtonClapham IndependentPhillips

D Place of worshipDenominationPreacher(s)Continuity and commentsDeptford Meeting-house, Butt LaneIndependentJohn Theodore Barker, from 1785Succeeded John Olding. To c.1833, when his successor John Pulling was ordained.Deptford, Church StreetGeneral BaptistWilliam MoonJoseph Brown died 1803Dean Street Meeting-house, Tooley StreetBaptistWilliam ButtonButton was minister from 1774 to 1813.Devonshire Square Meeting-houseParticular BaptistTimothy ThomasThomas was son of Joshua Thomas (DNB), and was minister from 1782, succeeding John Macgowan.St Dunstan's Fleet StreetAnglicanHenry George WatkinsDulwich Meeting-house

E Place of worshipDenominationPreacher(s)Continuity and commentsEagle Street Meeting-houseParticular BaptistCongregation of Andrew Gifford. Joseph Ivimey from October 1804.Ebenezer Chapel HammersmithCongregationalBuilt 1784.Ely Chapel, HolbornAnglicanShepherd, William MannMedieval building.Elim Chapel, Fetter LaneBaptistAbraham AustinAustin from 1785; previously used by Calvinistic Methodists.East Lane Meeting-house, WalworthBaptistJoseph JenkinsEssex Street ChapelUnitarianJohn Disney

F Place of worshipDenominationPreacher(s)Continuity and commentsFetter Lane Meeting-houseCongregationalGeorge BurderBurder was minister from 1803.Fetter LaneAustinFounder's HallAnthony CroleIn Colebrook Row, Islington.

G Place of worshipDenominationPreacher(s)Continuity and commentsSt George's SouthwarkAnglicanDraper, PayneSt George's Chapel, London RoadCongregationalThomas HarperSt Giles in the FieldsJohn ShephardHolborn.Greenwich ChapelGate Street Chapel, Lincoln's Inn FieldsCalvinistic MethodistGriffith WilliamsThomas Stevenson, James Durrant (resigned 1839); congregation moved to Whitefield Chapel, Charles Street, Long Acre c.1842Green-walk Meeting-house, Blackfriars RoadBaptistJames UptonUpton died 1834.Gravel Lane Chapel, Wapping

H Place of worshipDenominationPreacher(s)Continuity and commentsHaberdashers Almshouses ChapelWilkinsonHackney, Gravel PitsIndependent/UnitarianThomas Belsham, John KentishKentish was afternoon preacher from 1795.Hampstead Meeting-houseWraithHanover Street, Long AcreWorthington, WinterHighgate Meeting-housePorterHighgate PresbyterianPikeHammersmith Meeting-housePorterHammersmith IndependentsHumphriesHare-court Meeting-house, Aldersgate StreetWebbHighbury ChapelHorsleydown Meeting-houseHuntHoxton Academy Meeting-houseHoxton ChapelHomerton ChapelIndependentJohn EyrePreviously known as Ram's Chapel. Eyre was an evangelical, ordained in the Church of England, associated with Trevecca College.Holywell Mount ChapelPlattHackney Meeting-houseIndependentSamuel PalmerPalmer came to Mare Street, Hackney in 1762, as assistant to William Hunt. He moved the Mare Street congregation to St. Thomas's Square, in 1771, having become pastor in 1764. He was succeeded by Henry Forster Burder.

I Place of worshipDenominationPreacher(s)Continuity and commentsIslington ChapelCalvinistic MethodistEvan John JonesIslington Meeting-houseIndependentNathaniel JenningsLower-Street Chapel, where Jennings was minister from 1768 to 1814.

J Place of worshipDenominationPreacher(s)Continuity and commentsJewry Street ChapelCalvinistic MethodistJohn BallAfter the tenure of William Aldridge to 1797, the chapel was held by Richard Povah to 1801; who was succeeded by Ball. Ball died in 1811.Jamaica Row Meeting-house, RotherhitheBaptistPhillipsJamaica Row Meeting-house, RotherhitheIndependentJohn TownsendSt John HorseleydownAnglicanAbdySt John's WappingAnglicanWilliam GoodeSt John's Chapel, Bedford RowAnglicanRichard CecilDaniel Wilson in 1809.Jewin Street Meeting-houseTimothy Priestley

K Place of worshipDenominationPreacher(s)Continuity and commentsKensington ChapelCongregationalJohn Clayton, juniorSon of John Clayton (1754–1843).Kingsland Road Meeting-houseIndependentJohn CampbellCampbell was there from 1802.Kentish Town Meeting-house

L Place of worshipDenominationPreacher(s)Continuity and commentsLambeth Road Meeting-houseBrackstonLambeth Marsh ChapelWesleyanJohn Edwards, lay preacherLeather Lane, HolbornWilliam HughesHughes, minister 1798 to 1802, had in fact died by 1804. This was the congregation of Thomas Bayes, and had broken up.Lewisham ChapelLittle Wild Street Meeting-houseBaptistBenjamin CoxheadCongregation founded by John PiggottLocke ChapelScottLock's-fields Meeting-houseCongregationalYork Street Chapel in Walworth was founded in 1790; "Lock's-fields Meeting-house" was the older name. George Burder was preaching here in 1809.Long Acre ChapelHenry Foster, Edward CuthbertSt Lawrence's GuildhallAnglicanDavies, GoodeLondon-stone Church, Cannon Street (St Swithin, London Stone)FosterLondon Wall, Scots ChurchHenry HunterHunter had died in 1802. Robert Young was there in 1809.

M Place of worshipDenominationPreacher(s)Continuity and commentsSt Margaret's LothburyAnglicanCarter, ArmstrongSt Margaret Pattens, Rood LaneAnglicanJohn GroseMaze Pond Meeting-houseBaptistJames DoreDore was minister from 1782, succeeding Benjamin Wallin.St Mary Magdalen's, BermondseyAnglicanHenry Cox MasonMason died in 1804, and was replaced by William Mann.St Mary Woolnoth, Lombard StreetAnglicanJohn NewtonSt Mary Somerset's, Labour-in-vain-hillAnglicanWilliam Alphonsus Gunn, lecturer St Mary's Chapel, Broad Way, WestminsterDaviesMiles Lane Meeting-houseSecession ChurchEastonThe meeting-house had housed the Independent congregation of Stephen Addington, who died in 1796.Mill YardSlaterMitchell Street Meeting-house, Old StreetPowellSt Mildred Bread StreetAnglicanJohn Neal LakeSt Michael Crooked LaneAnglicanArmstrongMonkwell StreetLindsey

N Place of worshipDenominationPreacher(s)Continuity and commentsNew Broad Street Meeting-houseBenjamin GaffeeNewington Butts ChapelPovehNewington Green ChurchShepherdNewington, StokeHodgkinsNewington Green ChapelIndependent/UnitarianRochemont Barbauld, LindseyNew Road Chapel, St George's EastSamuel LyndallNine Elms Meeting-houseOpened 1797, near Vauxhall.

O Place of worshipDenominationPreacher(s)Continuity and commentsOld Ford Meeting-houseBaptistWilliam NewmanOrange Street Chapel, Leicester FieldsCongregationalTaken over from the Church of England in 1787.Old Gravel Lane, WappingIndependentN. HillThe congregation of David Jennings.Old Jewry Meeting-housePresbyterianAbraham ReesSt Olave's, SouthwarkAnglicanJohn Grose

P Place of worshipDenominationPreacher(s)Continuity and commentsPaddington Meeting-houseNone active in 1810.Paradise Chapel, ChelseaIsaac Picket, Duncan, BucklandRegistered for an Independent congregation in 1793.Parliament Court Chapel, Bishopsgate StreetUniversalistWilliam VidlerVidler was succeeded in 1817 by William Johnson Fox.Pavement Meeting-house, MoorfieldsWilliam WallSt Paul's ShadwellAnglicanWilliam WinkworthPeckham Meeting-houseCongregationalWilliam Bengo' CollyerLater rebuilt as Hanover ChapelPrince's Street Chapel, WestminsterUnitarianThomas JervisJervis succeeded Andrew Kippis in 1796.Providence Chapel, Tichfield StreetWilliam HuntingtonSt Peter's CornhillBasil Woodd, FosterPoplar Chapel

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