St Anne's Church, Kew

St Anne's Church, Kew
The Parish Church of St Anne, Kew
St Anne's and the Kew war memorial in the spring
51°29′02″N 0°17′16″W / 51.4838°N 0.2879°W / 51.4838; -0.2879
Location	Kew Green, Kew, Richmond TW9 3AA
Country	England, United Kingdom
Denomination	Church of England
Website	saintanne-kew.org.uk/kew-green/
History
Founded	1714
Founder(s)	Queen Anne
Dedication	12 May 1714[1]
Architecture
Years built	1714
Administration
Diocese	Southwark
Episcopal area	Kingston
Archdeaconry	Wandsworth
Deanery	Richmond & Barnes
Parish	St Anne, Kew
Clergy
Bishop(s)	Christopher Chessun
Vicar(s)	The Revd Canon Giles Fraser
Dean	Tim Marwood
Assistant	Nick Darby
Archdeacon	John Kiddle
Laity
Organist/Director of music	Julian Kelly
Churchwarden(s)	Cate Lyon, John Mortley
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name	Parish Church of St Anne
Designated	10 January 1950
Reference no.	1194022

St Anne's Church, Kew, is a parish church in Kew in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The building, which dates from 1714, and is Grade II* listed,^[2] forms the central focus of Kew Green. The raised churchyard, which is on three sides of the church,^[3] has two Grade II* listed monuments – the tombs of the artists Johan Zoffany (d. 1816)^[4] and Thomas Gainsborough (d. 1788).^[5] The French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), who stayed in 1892 at 10 Kew Green,^[6] portrayed St Anne's in his painting Church at Kew (1892).^[7]

Services

On Sundays the church holds a Said Eucharist in traditional language, a Sung Eucharist and (on the first Sunday of the month) Choral Evensong.^[8]

Music

The church is used as a venue for concerts,^[9] including those of the local orchestra, Kew Sinfonia.^[10]

History

Originally built in 1714 on land given by Queen Anne,^[3] as a church within the parish of Kingston, St Anne's Church has been extended several times since, as the settlement of Kew grew with royal patronage. In 1770, King George III undertook to pay for the first extension, designed by Joshua Kirby^[3] who, four years later, was buried in the churchyard. The church became a parish church in its own right in 1788. In 1805, a new south aisle, designed by Robert Browne,^[11] was added, along with a gallery for the royal family's own use. Under King William IV it was further extended in 1837 by Sir Jeffry Wyattville.^[11] A mausoleum designed by the architect Benjamin Ferrey^[11] was added in 1851 and an eastern extension, including a dome, in 1882/4. This was to the designs of Henry Stock.^[12] Further extensions occurred in 1902, 1979 and 1988.^[1] The interior of the roof was repainted in 2013. To mark the church's tercentenary in 2014, a new baptismal font was installed.^[13]

The present parish hall, which is at right angles to the church and incorporates the previous choir vestry, was built in 1978. Its design echoes the materials and forms of the church building.^[3]

A collection of funerary hatchments honouring deceased royal or noble parishioners is on display in front of the church's gallery, flanking a rare representation of Queen Anne's coat of arms. A hatchment commemorating George III's son, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, was hung in the church in 1821. It is now in the collection of the Museum of Richmond.^[14] Inside the church are fine memorials, including ones to the Hooker family.^[15]

Just outside the church walls, on the south side, is the Kew war memorial, in the form of a large stone cross, commemorating the local people who fell in the First and Second World Wars.^[16] Their names are listed not on the memorial, but inside the church in a monument by William Sharpington.^[17][16]

Events

Baptisms

• Francis Perceval Eliot, soldier, auditor and man of letters, 9 October 1755

Marriages

• Francis, Duke of Teck married Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, 12 June 1866.^[18] Their daughter, "May", married George V and was known as Queen Mary.

Burials

• William Aiton (d. 1793), first keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew^[19][20][21]
• William Townsend Aiton (d. 1849) son of above, English botanist, royal gardener.^[22][23]
• Franz Bauer (d. 1840), the Austrian microscopist and botanical artist,^[19] whose epitaph also pays tribute to his brother the botanical illustrator Ferdinand Bauer (d. 1826): "In the delineation of plants he [Franz] united the accuracy of a profound naturalist with the skill of the accomplished artist, to a degree which has been only equalled by his brother Ferdinand"
• Professor John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan (d. 1985), British botanist, and director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew^[24]
• George Engleheart (d. 1829), painter of portrait miniatures to the Court of King George III
• Thomas Gainsborough (d. 1788), English portrait and landscape painter
• Rev. Thomas Haverfield (d. 1866), chaplain to Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex
• Sir William Hooker (d. 1865), director of the Royal Gardens at Kew, and his son, English botanist and explorer Sir Joseph Hooker (d. 1911)^[19]
• Joshua Kirby (d. 1774), 18th-century painter known for his work on linear perspective^{[citation needed]}
• Richard Levett (d. 1711), Lord Mayor of London and former owner of Kew Palace; and members of his family, including his grandson, Rev Abraham Blackborne (d. 1797) and his wife Frances,^[25] and Lincoln's Inn barrister Levett Blackborne (d. 1781), who sold Kew Palace to the royal family^[26][27]
• Jeremiah Meyer (d. 1789), English miniature painter^[19]
• John Smith (d. 1888), botanist and the first curator at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew^{[citation needed]}
• Johan Zoffany (d. 1810), German neoclassical painter active in England^[4]

Formerly buried at St Anne's

• Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge and his wife Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel were buried at the east end of the church in 1850 and 1889 respectively, but in 1930 their remains were exhumed and buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.^[19][28]

Gallery

Church exterior

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  St Anne's Church in the snow
• 
  East end of the church. The small domed building is the cenotaph of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge and his wife Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel

Church interior

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  Interior of St Anne's

Tombs and memorials

• 
  Memorial to George Engleheart, who is buried at the church
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  Tomb of Thomas Gainsborough
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  Hooker family grave
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  Tomb of Johan Zoffany
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  War memorial on Kew Green

See also

• The Barn Church, Kew
• Kew Mortuary
• St Luke's Church, Kew
• Anthony Saxton

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to St. Anne's Church, Kew.

• Official website
• St Anne's Church, Kew at Find a Grave
• "St Anne's Church, Kew Green" (PDF). Local History Notes from Richmond Libraries’ Local Studies Collection. London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
• The Friends of St Anne's Church, Kew
• Speel, Bob: Kew Church Monuments (Monuments at St Anne's)

Further reading

• Blomfield, David (2014). St Anne's Kew, 1714–2014. R J L Smith and Associates. ISBN 978-0-9573492-8-5.
• Blomfield, David (2014). "Queen Anne's Little Church". Richmond History: Journal of the Richmond Local History Society. 35: 18–24. ISSN 0263-0958.
• Cassidy, G E (1981). "The eccentric Vicar of Kew, the Revd Caleb Colton, 1780–1832". Richmond History: Journal of the Richmond Local History Society. 2: 13–16. ISSN 0263-0958.
• Cassidy, G E (1984). "Extracts from the Kew Church Archives". Richmond History: Journal of the Richmond Local History Society. 5: 14–21. ISSN 0263-0958.
• Cassidy, G E (1985). "The first Organ at St Anne's Church, Kew Green". Richmond History: Journal of the Richmond Local History Society. 6: 39–41. ISSN 0263-0958.
• Cassidy, G E (1987). "The Pew cushions in St Anne's Church, Kew". Richmond History: Journal of the Richmond Local History Society. 8: 33–41. ISSN 0263-0958.
• Mollett, Marian (2015). "Remembering the Men of Kew" (PDF). Richmond History: Journal of the Richmond Local History Society. 36: 10–23. ISSN 0263-0958. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
• Moses, John (2020). "St Anne's Church, Kew and its architectural attributions". Richmond History: Journal of the Richmond Local History Society. 41: 53–58. ISSN 0263-0958.

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