Functional status active Address Richmond TW9 1LR, UK Phone +44 20 8940 1788 Architect W Braxton Sinclair | Completed 1953 Opened 1953 Groundbreaking 1939 | |
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Website www.fccsrichmond.org.uk Similar Ebenezer Strict Baptist C, Richmond Green United R, Bethlehem Chapel - Richmond, Salvation Army Centre - T, St Stephen's - Twickenham | ||
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Richmond, is a church on Sheen Road, Richmond, London. It is a branch of The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1879.
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Architecture
It was built between 1939 and 1953; the architects were W Braxton Sinclair (who also designed the Grade II listed First Church of Christ Scientist, Bromley) and Barton. Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner describe it as having "heavily modelled red brickwork, with some free Baroque details".
Services and activities
On Sunday mornings there is a church service and also a Sunday school for people under 20. A weekly testimony meeting is held on Wednesdays evenings.
The building includes a reading room.
The church is registered as a place of worship in accordance with the Places of Worship Registration Act 1855; its number on the register is 81398.