St Andrew's Southgate is an
Edwardian
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Church of England
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church in Chase Side,
Southgate
SouthGate is a shopping centre in Bath, Somerset, England, It is home to over fifty shops, ten restaurants, 99 homes and an 860-space underground car park. It replaced a shopping centre which was demolished in 2007.
The new centre developed b ...
, London. It was built in 1903 and consecrated in 1913.
It replaced a
chapel-of-ease
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(to the then parish church
Christ Church, Southgate
Christ Church, Southgate, is a Church of England parish church in Waterfall Road, Southgate, London, Southgate, London. It describes itself as a "Liberal Anglo-Catholic, liberal catholic Church of England parish". The building is grade II* liste ...
) sited in nearby Farm Road since the 1870s, which became known as St Andrew's in the 1890s.
[ St Andrews's gained parish status in 1928.
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Incumbents
The reverend William H.I. Simpson (died 1949), first incumbent of St Andrew's,[Dumayne, Alan ''Southgate A Glimpse Into the Past,'' 1987, ] is buried at Southgate Cemetery along with his wife Madeline Simpson and son Kenneth Simpson of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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who died in an accident while on active service during the Second World War.
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Southgate
SouthGate is a shopping centre in Bath, Somerset, England, It is home to over fifty shops, ten restaurants, 99 homes and an 860-space underground car park. It replaced a shopping centre which was demolished in 2007.
The new centre developed b ...
Southgate, London
Diocese of London
Christian organizations established in 1903
20th-century Church of England church buildings
Gothic Revival church buildings in London
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