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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[1] on a site adjoining the Golden Lane Estate. It replaced a chapel built in 1878–1879 that was destroyed in World War II during the 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[2] 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, who occasionally substitutes as the chapel's organist, agreed to lead a campaign to save the building and the chapel, to keep the traditions of the London Welsh community alive.[3] Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones chose the campaign as his input to BBC Wales Today for Children in Need 2013.[4]
- ^ "History". capeljewin. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- ^ "Jewin Welsh Presbyterian Church". The Twentieth Century Society. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- ^ Blunden, Mark (21 November 2013). "Edwards plea for Welsh church". London Evening Standard. p. 44.
- ^ "Huw Edwards leads campaign to save Jewin Presbyterian Church". BBC Cymru Wales. 18 November 2013. Retrieved 18 November 2013.