Reseating: Church of St Jude Chelsea

CHELSEA - The parish church (St. Jude’s) has just been provided with new pitch-pine open seats and a new pulpit, at the sole cost of the vicar, the Rev. W. H. Dalton. The seats supersede the flimsy high-backed painted deal framework of fifty years ago. The fronts of the seats and the pulpit are richly carved. The pulpit, which is hexagonal on plan, has inlaid panels of oak, walnut, and ebony parqueterie. The work has been carried out by Messrs. Richardson & Balcombe, from the designs of Mr. E. H. Lingen- Barker, architect. {Builder 28 December 1878 page 1370]