Church of St. Gabriel, Notting Hill, London

ST GABRIEL'S, NOTTING HILL —The new Church of St. Gabriel, built by the exertions of the Rev. A. Williamson, to act as a chapel of ease to the mother church of St James's, Norlands, Notting Hill, W, was consecrated on Wednesday last. The church has been built from the designs of Mr. Withers, on a site 140 feet by 55 feet, purchased at a cost of £1,400. The floor of the church is raised seven feet above the roadway, and the site is excavated six feet below same. The plan of the church consists of nave, with apsidal chancel, each 25 feet wide, with aisles 11 feet and 13 feet wide, thus covering the whole width of site. The walls of nave and chancel are built of brick, 30 feet high, whilst the roof is 50 feet to the ridge. Six arches divide nave and chancel from aisles, over which in the clerestory are 26 lancet windows, carried around the apse, and in the west gable are two tiers of three lancets each, this completes the lighting, no windows existing in aisles. The oak altar is raised seven steps from the nave, and is nine feet long; behind it is a simple reredos with gradus and super-altar. The chancel stalls and pulpit arc of oak, the scats being deal. All the nave and lower floors are paved with wooden blocks, laid on concrete, the chancel is paved with tiles. On the lower floor, are parish room, 60 feet by 25 feet, choir and clergy vestries, with separate entrance. The church will seat 600 people and has cost £5,500.  [Church Times 27 July 1883 page 535]