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St Mary's Church, Putney

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468: 394: 31: 684: 1080: 921: 1055: 946: 999: 926: 881: 931: 1065: 717: 936: 979: 886: 278:. There has been a centre of Christian worship on this site from at least the 13th century, and the church is still very active today. It is also noteworthy because in 1647, during the 941: 891: 901: 896: 1014: 916: 861: 831: 1019: 866: 851: 300:
The building itself has seen many changes; parts of the existing church have survived from medieval times, such as the 15th-century tower and some of the nave
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mentions St. Mary's in his diary for 1667. He attended a service where he heard 'a good sermon'. He saw the girls of the school, 'few of which were pretty'.
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In 1973 an arson gutted of much of the church. Rebuilding was not completed until nearly ten years later, when the church was rehallowed by
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windows. Some of the medieval pillars and arches in the nave were retained, but both the north and the south arcades were widened.
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In 2005 a new extension to the church, the "Brewer Building", built at a cost of £1.7m was opened by the
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For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he.
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Inscribed on a wall of the church is a quote from the Putney debates (1647) by Colonel
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St. Mary's is one of the two churches in the Parish of Putney, the other being
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Religious buildings and structures in the United Kingdom destroyed by arson
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Church of England church buildings in the London Borough of Wandsworth
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of St. Mary's, where he campaigned to raise the profile of the
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Grade II* listed buildings in the London Borough of Wandsworth
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Putney
Denomination
Church of England
Churchmanship
Liberal Anglo-Catholic
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Dedication
St Mary the Virgin
Province
Canterbury
Diocese
Southwark
Kingston
Archdeaconry
Deanery
Wandsworth
Parish
Vicar(s)
Director of music
Churchwarden(s)
Verger
Anglican
Putney
River Thames
Putney Bridge
English Civil War
Putney Debates
English
constitution

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