West Park URC Church

Local nameWest Park URC Church
LocationHarrogate, UK

West Park United Reformed Church is located in the West Park area of Harrogate, England, and is a Grade II listed building. It was designed in Nonconformist Gothic style as West Park Congregational Church by Lockwood & Mawson and completed in 1862 for around £5,000. Along with Belvedere Mansion across the road, it was intended as part of the prestigious entrance to the Victoria Park development. For the Congregationalists it was meant to house an increasing congregation of visitors brought to the spa town by the recently-built railways. It became a United Reformed church in 1972.

Its first minister was the much-loved Reverend John Henry Gavin who died in his prime of tuberculosis and had a big funeral in which many followed the coffin. Sir Francis Crossley laid the foundation stone, Thomas Raffles preached at the opening, and Tsarina Alexandra of Russia later worshipped there.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Park_United_Reformed_Church,_Harrogate

Address 9 Raglan Street, Harrogate HG1 1LE, United Kingdom

Coordinates 53°59'26.549" N -1°32'25.789" E

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