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Description: | The congregation of St. Paul's had its origins when Miss Kate Buee began holding meetings in a cottage in Stoke Gardens. These meetings came to the attention of Algernon Gilliat, a resident of Stoke Poges.The community grew with the influx of Great Western Railway employees, so Algernon Gilliat built a Mission Church (known as the 'tin tabernacle') with a schoolroom and kitchen in 1885. He also paid the stipend of a Curate-in-charge under the Vicar of Stoke Poges. In 1905, Gilliat gave money for the building of a new church, constructed by Henry Flint of High Wycombe, and later a vicarage.The church, built on land given by the Messrs. Nash who owned a local brick-making company, cost some £10,000, and was faced externally and internally with Messrs. Nash's best red bricks.The new Parish of St Paul's was constituted from part of the parishes of Stoke Poges and Upton-cum-Chalvey; the first vicar was the Revd. R. Sinker (shown on the image), who had been a minister at the old Mission Church. St. Paul's Church was consecrated on the 12th of November 1906 by the Bishop of Oxford.
This postcard may be a souvenir of the opening of the church. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Slough Library | Subjects: | Stoke Road ; St. Paul's ; Reverend Robert Sinker ; Nash ; Kate Buee ; Algernon Gilliat ; Henry Flint Churches ; Roads | Temporal: | start=1905-01-01; end=1907-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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