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Raymond Wilshire, 1828
Trinity Chapel, St. Matthew’s Road, SW2 1NF
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Trinity is a 19th century Nonconformist chapel founded in 1828. The design is a Georgian preaching box with a Doric porch. The chapel has a Bevington pipe organ at the balcony level. There are some Victorian stained glass windows and a more modern window installed in 1976. Other windows are now clear glass as was typical for Nonconformists in 1828. The chapel has wooden pews.
Brixton
Brixton
133, 159
More buses: 2, 3, 196, 432, 59, 45
There is a ramp to the chapel. The front of the chapel is car free, but parking in the rest of the street is free on Saturdays.
There will be people in the chapel who can give historical information and answer questions. Refreshments and exhibition in the hall.
10:00–16:00
Visitors will come into the chapel and can talk to members about its history. There will be an exhibition and refreshments in the hall.
Trinity Congregational Church began in a house on Brixton Hill soon after St. Matthew’s Church was built. In 1828 these dissenters began to build a chapel, on what is now St. Matthew’s Road, taking on a debt which took many years to pay off. The church has always been financed by members and friends. There have been a few changes to the chapel since 1828, including the installation of a Bevington organ. A new, larger chapel was planned at the beginning of the 20th century, but this never came to fruition.
The church has minute books from the past, magazines prepared by the young men before World War 1 and literature about its history.
