Chingford URC

Chingford United Reformed Church
2b Buxton Road
Chingford
London
E4 7DP

Tel: 020 8529 8888​

Sunday Worship
10:30 - 11:30 Church worship, with coffee/ tea afterwards.

Minister
Revd Jonathan Hyde​

Organist
Position vacant

Church Secretary
Malcolm Allard
[email protected]
020 8529 8888

Hall Hire
Malcolm Smith
[email protected]
020 8529 8888
​Click here for more information about hall hire.

Forthcoming Events

Variety Concert

Saturday 19 October 2024

Please join us at our variety concert to be held at Chingford URC on Saturday 19 October 2024,

The evening starts at 7:30pm.

​Tickets are priced at £10 per person, with all proceeds going to Haven House Children's Hospice.

Please bring your own drinks, glasses and nibbles.

Contact 07710 452427 for tickets.

Church Elders

• Malcolm Allard
  
• Margaret Brown
  
• Helen Haigh
  
• Sandra Millan
  
• Samantha Roney
  
• Ian Seeney
  
• Malcolm Smith
  
• Joyce Whiteley

The History of Chingford URC

Our church was founded in 1888, at a time when there were no churches or chapels in Chingford except the Parish church, the Halls of the Brethren on Kings Head Hill and the Wesleyans at Chingford Hatch.

What is now Station Road was then little more than a lane or at best a village street, with small cottages and shops and a few large houses.

Following the opening of Chingford Station in 1880, the area slowly developed from a quiet country village into an urban district.

Walter Beeching and John William Clark, at one time members of Abney Park Congregational Church in Stoke Newington, moved to Chingford and formed the idea of setting up a new Congregational Church here. With the generous financial assistance of James Spicer, a member of the Congregational Church in Woodford Green, this was made possible.

A site was acquired at the corner of Buxton Road and The Drive for this purpose. The cost of the land and buidlings was £2,200, with the Spicer family contributing £1,700 and the church members raising £500.

The church began on 18 November 1888 and met initially in the upper rooms above the shop on the corner of Station Road and Garfield Road. The first building in Buxton Road was completed in 1890 and was named Spicer Hall. It was the church's meeting place for the next 20 years until our present church building was opened on 19 May 1910.

The current halls, next to the first house in Buxton Road, were constructed in 1923. Spicer Hall remained in use by the church and local community until 2004 when it was sold and converted into residential properties, the sale proceeds being used towards the modernisation and integration of the remaining church buildings which exist today.

The church was known as Chingford Congregational Church until October 1972 when a merger took place, nationally, between the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches to create the United Reformed Church.

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