Downing Place United Reformed Church, Cambridge

"Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Cambridge" redirects here. For the former Emmanuel United Reformed Church building on Trumpington Street, Cambridge, see Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Downing Place
United Reformed Church
Downing Place URC viewed from Downing Street, Cambridge
Downing Place United Reformed Church is located in Central Cambridge
Downing Place United Reformed Church
Downing Place
United Reformed Church
Location in Downing Place, Cambridge
52°12′12″N 0°07′22″E / 52.2032°N 0.1227°E / 52.2032; 0.1227
LocationCentral Cambridge
CountryEngland
DenominationUnited Reformed Church
Websitehttps://downingplaceurc.org/
History
Former name(s)Emmanuel URC, Emmanuel Congregational Church, Emmanuel Congregational Chapel, Hog Hill Independent Church; St Columba's URC, St Columba's Presbyterian Church
Administration
SynodURC Eastern Synod
Clergy
Minister(s)Revd Nigel Uden

Downing Place United Reformed Church, Cambridge is a church in Cambridge, England, that is part of the United Reformed Church. It was formed in 2018 in a merger between St Columba's Church, Cambridge, and Emmanuel Church, Cambridge. The church occupies the former St Columba's building in Downing Place, which is close to a site occupied by Emmanuel's congregation before 1874.

In the recent past prior to the merger of the two congregations, activities have included regular Sunday worship, a programme of music concerts, hosting an NHS group therapy centre and hosting a night-time drop-in centre hosted by Cambridge Street Pastors. The refurbishment has been designed to facilitate similar activities.[1][2]

History

Emmanuel Church

Site of the former Hog Hill chapel, Downing Place, Cambridge
The former Emmanuel Church building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge
Stained-glass windows of 1905 by Morris & Co. in the former Emmanuel URC building, depicting Puritans with Cambridge connections. From left to right: Henry Barrow, John Greenwood, Oliver Cromwell, John Milton, Francis Holcroft and Joseph Hussey

Originally a congregational church, Emmanuel voted to join the new United Reformed Church in 1972. Emmanuel had been known by different names over the years, first as the 'Hog Hill Independent Church' and then the 'Emmanuel Congregational Chapel' or 'Emmanuel Congregational Church'.

The Emmanuel congregation was founded as the Cambridge 'Great Meeting' in 1687, at Hog Hill, the original building being there, on what is now the Old Music School in Downing Place. From 1691 the minister was Joseph Hussey;[3] he was commemorated in the stained glass in the apse of the Emmanuel church building alongside John Greenwood, Henry Barrow, Oliver Cromwell, John Milton and Francis Holcroft. Hussey's congregation split in 1696, with some going to the meeting in Green Street, Cambridge, and again after he had left for London, in 1721, with a group founding the precursor of St Andrew's Street Baptist Church, Cambridge. The church was rebuilt on the same site, opening as Emmanuel Congregational Chapel in 1790.[4][5] The move to the new church on Trumpington Street, called the Emmanuel Congregational Church, came in 1874.[4] The old chapel was put to use from 1881 as the Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women, for female science students in the University of Cambridge.[6] Prior to September 2020, Emmanuel United Reformed Church occupied the Trumpington Street building. It was built to a design by the architect James Cubitt in 1875. The church was listed as Grade II in 1996.[7] The building was sold to Pembroke College to form part of the college's Mill Lane development project.

In the years leading up to the merger, Emmanuel organised regular Sunday worship and a programme of community activities in the recent past: a volunteer-staffed fairtrade cafe, a series of lunchtime music recitals and a share in Hope Cambridge's Churches Homeless Project. The Cambridge branch of the Open Table Network was founded here in July 2018.[8]

St Columba's Church

St Columba's from across Downing Place (before refurbishment)

St Columba's was originally a Presbyterian church. A Presbyterian congregation was first registered in Cambridge in 1689, at that time based in Green Street. The congregation of St Columba's was formally established in 1881,[9] initially worshipping in Cambridge Guildhall.

The St Columba’s church building, on the corner of Downing Place and Downing Street, was built in 1891 in the Early English style to the designs of Scottish architect John Macvicar Anderson.[4] As well as being a congregation of the Presbyterian Church of England and, from 1972, of the United Reformed Church, St Columba's was also the Chaplaincy for the Church of Scotland to the University of Cambridge; the minister's appointment as chaplain being with the concurrence of the Kirk's Presbytery of England.[10]

In the years leading up to the merger, St Columba's, the church's programme included regular Sunday worship, hosting a group therapy centre, and a night-time drop-in centre hosted by Cambridge Street Pastors.[1]

Merger to form Downing Place United Reformed Church

On 9 June (St Columba's Day) 2018, St Columba's Church and Emmanuel Church united to form Downing Place United Reformed Church. The combined congregation occupies the former St Columba's building in Downing Place.[1] The St Columba’s site has been extensively renovated as part of a £3.3 million project led by Archangel Architects.

The Emmanuel building was sold to Pembroke College, Cambridge across the road in Trumpington Street, who intended to retain it as a lecture and performance area as part of their Mill Lane redevelopment. The final service in the Emmanuel building took place on 26 July 2020 and all church activities at Trumpington Street have ceased.[2]

While the St Columba's Church building was closed for major building works, regular worship took place in Westminster College, Cambridge.[1][2][11] The newly restored building was rededicated in November 2021.

People

Ministers of Emmanuel Church have included:

  • 1738–1754 John Conder[12]
  • 1767–1788 Joseph Saunders[4]
  • 1806–1817 William Harris[4]
  • 1848–1854 George Burder Bubier[13][14]
  • 1859–1865 Thomas Campbell Finlayson[13][15]
  • 1871–1872 James Ward[16]
  • 1894–1901 P. T. Forsyth[17]
  • 1902–1909 William Boothby Selbie[18]
  • 1910–1942 Henry Child Carter
  • 1974-1982 Anthony (Tony) Coates
  • Derek M Wales
  • 1997-2003 Paul Quilter
  • -2014 Lance Stone
  • 2017-2020 John Bradbury

Ministers of St Columba's Church:

Among the other people who have been associated with the two churches over the years, Michael Ramsey, who later became Archbishop of York, worshipped at what was then Emmanuel Congregational church as a child, where his father was a deacon.[29][unreliable source?] Among those listed on the Roll of Honour of Missionaries valedicted from St Columba's Church[30] are two notable ecumenists, William Paton to India in 1919 (first general secretary of what is now the National Council of Churches in India), and Lesslie Newbigin to India in 1936 (becoming one of the first bishops of the new Church of South India in 1947). Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson, biblical scholars sometimes known as the "Westminster sisters" attended St Columba's[31] and are commemorated by a plaque.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Curtis, Adrian (27 November 2019). "£3.3m vision is transforming iconic Cambridge church". Cambridge Independent. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Emmanuel United Reformed Church. "Home". Archived from the original on 11 August 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020. The last service to take place in the Emmanuel building was broadcast on Sunday 26 July .... Please visit our new website, Downing Place URC to follow us as we prepare to move to Downing Place as our permanent home ....{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ Atkinson, Thomas Dinham (1897). Cambridge Described and Illustrated. Macmillan. p. 173 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ a b c d e Roach, J. P. C., ed. (1959). "The city of Cambridge: Protestant Nonconformity". A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3, the City and University of Cambridge. Victoria County History. pp. 135–183. Retrieved 2 August 2020 – via British History Online.
  5. ^ City of Cambridge, vol.2 p.302 (1959), Royal Commission of Ancient Monuments
  6. ^ Packman, Len (2011). "The Hopkins Building Jubilee Celebrations". Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 9 August 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  7. ^ Historic England. "Emmanuel United Reformed Church (Grade II) (1268350)". National Heritage List for England.
  8. ^ Downing Place URC. "Home". Archived from the original on 11 August 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
  9. ^ Knox, R Buick (1979). St Columba's Church Cambridge 1879-1979. Cambridge. pp. 1–8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. ^ Year Book 2007/2008. Edinburgh: Church of Scotland. 2007. p. 296.
  11. ^ Downing Place URC. "Home". Archived from the original on 11 August 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020. ... public worship will resume in September; and will take place at Westminster College while we await the completion of our refurbishment project on the Downing Place site.
  12. ^ Briggs, J. H. Y. "Conder, John (1714–1781)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6058. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  13. ^ a b Binfield, Clyde (1968). "Chapels in Crisis". In Taylor, John H. (ed.). Transactions of the Congregational History Society. Vol. XX. pp. 237–254 – via Internet Archive. (The most relevant text is on pp. 246-247.)
  14. ^ "Bubier, George Burder (c.1823-c.1869)". Dissenting Academics Online. Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English, Queen Mary University of London. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  15. ^ "Thomas Campbell Findlayson". The University of Glasgow Story. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  16. ^ Sorely, W. R.; Romano, Terrie M. "Ward, James (1843–1925)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36732. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  17. ^ Huxtable, John. "Forsyth, Peter Taylor (1848–1921)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37424. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  18. ^ Jackson, Samuel Macaulay, ed. (1953). "Selbie, William Boothby". The New Schaff-Herzog Religious Encyclopedia. Vol. X. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House. p. 338. Retrieved 2 August 2020 – via Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
  19. ^ Knox, R. Buick (1979). St Columba's Church Cambridge 1879-1979. Cambridge. p. 24.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  20. ^ Knox, R. Buick (1979). St Columba's Church Cambridge 1879-1979. Cambridge. pp. 25–27.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  21. ^ Knox, R. Buick (1979). St Columba's Church Cambridge 1879-1979. Cambridge. pp. 27–28.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  22. ^ Knox, R. Buick (1979). St Columba's Church Cambridge 1879-1979. Cambridge. p. 28.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  23. ^ Knox, R. Buick (1979). St Columba's Church Cambridge 1879-1979. Cambridge. pp. 28–29.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  24. ^ Knox, R. Buick (1979). St Columba's Church Cambridge 1879-1979. Cambridge. p. 29.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  25. ^ The Official Handbook 1950-51. London: Presbyterian Church of England. 1950. p. 73.
  26. ^ Year Book 2004. London: United Reformed Church. 2004. p. 278.
  27. ^ Year Book 2004. London: United Reformed Church. 2004. p. 247.
  28. ^ Year Book 2004. London: United Reformed Church. 2004. p. 267.
  29. ^ Commerford, Patrick (4 September 2015). "Where part of Salvation is for sale at £2 and Oliver Cromwell is among the saints". Patrick Commerford: an online journal on Anglicanism, theology, spirituality, history, architecture, travel, poetry, beach walks ... and more (blog).
  30. ^ Knox, R. Buick (1979). St Columba's Church Cambridge 1879-1979. Cambridge. pp. 56–57.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  31. ^ Soskice, Janet (2009), Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels. London. ISBN 978-1-4000-3474-1, p.282

Further reading

  • Roach, J. P. C., ed. (1959). "The city of Cambridge: Protestant Nonconformity". A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3, the City and University of Cambridge. Victoria County History. pp. 135–183. Retrieved 2 August 2020 – via British History Online. This gives the history of both the congregations that merged to form Downing Place United Reformed Church in c. 2019. The section 'Independents' describes the history of what would later become Emmanuel United Reformed Church; the section 'Presbyterians' describes what would later become St Columba's United Reformed Church.

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