Editing Chiswick (section)

=== Churches ===

[[File:Turnham Green Church 3.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Christ Church, [[Turnham Green]], by [[George Gilbert Scott]], 1843]]

[[St Nicholas Church, Chiswick|St Nicholas Church]], near the river Thames, has a 15th-century tower, although the remainder of the church was rebuilt by [[J.L. Pearson]] in 1882–84. Monuments in the churchyard mark the burial sites of the 18th-century English artist [[William Hogarth]] and [[William Kent]], the architect and landscape designer; the churchyard also houses a mausoleum (for [[Philip James de Loutherbourg]]) designed by [[John Soane]], and the tomb of [[Josiah Wedgwood]]'s business partner, [[Thomas Bentley (manufacturer)|Thomas Bentley]], designed by Thomas Scheemakers.<ref>{{cite book| title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography| chapter=Thomas Scheemakers| url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101024802/Thomas-Scheemakers| archive-url=https://archive.today/20141114073649/http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101024802/Thomas-Scheemakers| url-status=dead| archive-date=14 November 2014| date=2014}}</ref> One of [[Oliver Cromwell]]'s daughters, Mary Fauconberg, lived at Sutton Court and is buried in the churchyard.<ref name=Clegg30>Clegg, 1995. p 30</ref> Enduring legend has it that the body of Oliver Cromwell was also interred with her, though as the [[Viscount Fauconberg|Fauconbergs]] did not move to Sutton Court until 15 years after his disinterment, it is more likely he was reburied at their home at Newburgh Priory.<ref name=Clegg30/> Private [[Frederick Hitch]] [[Victoria Cross|VC]], hero of [[Rorke's Drift]], is also buried there.<!--Blue Plaque on Cranbrook Road--><ref>{{cite web|title=Parade planned for Chiswick's Rorke's Drift Hero |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=evhitch.htm |publisher=Chiswick W4 |access-date=16 September 2015}}</ref>

The church of [[St Michael's Church, Grove Park|St Michael, Sutton Court]] was designed by [[W. D. Caröe]] in 1908–1909. It is a red brick building on Elmwood road, in Tudor style.<ref name=BHOchurches/> St Paul's Church, Grove Park is a Gothic style stone building designed by H. Currey. It was built largely at the Duke of Devonshire's expense in 1872.<ref name=BHOchurches/>

<!--[[File:The spire of St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park, W4 - geograph.org.uk - 899072.jpg|thumb|upright|The spire of [[St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park]], by [[Norman Shaw]], 1880]]
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[[St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park]] was initially a temporary iron building from 1876 on Chiswick High Road facing Chiswick Lane. The current building's foundation stone was laid in 1879 and consecrated in 1880. It was designed, along with much of Bedford Park, by [[Norman Shaw]], and was called "a very lovely church" by [[John Betjeman]]. It is an [[Anglo-Catholic]] church, and was attacked on the day it was consecrated for "Popish and Pagan mummeries" by the brewer Henry Smith, churchwarden of St Nicholas, Chiswick.<ref>{{cite web |title=A brief history of the Church |url=http://www.smaaa.org.uk/church/history.html |publisher=St Michael and All Angels |access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref>

[[Christ Church, Turnham Green]] is an early Victorian Gothic building of flint with stone dressings. The main part of the building, by [[George Gilbert Scott]] and W. B. Moffat, is from 1843; the chancel and northeast chapel were added in 1887 by J. Brooks.<ref name=BHOchurches>{{cite web|title=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7, Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol7/pp90-93|publisher=British History|pages=90–93}}</ref>

Chiswick's principal [[Roman Catholic]] church, [[Our Lady of Grace and St Edward Church|Our Lady of Grace and St Edward]] ([[St Edward the Confessor|the Confessor]]) in the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster|Diocese of Westminster]], lies on the corner of Duke's Avenue and the High Road. It is a red brick building; the parish was founded in 1848, a school began c. 1855, and a church was opened by [[Cardinal Wiseman]] on the present site in 1864. It was replaced by the present building in 1886, opened by [[Henry Edward Manning|Cardinal Manning]]. The heavy debts incurred were paid off and the church consecrated in 1904. The square tower was added after the First World War by Canon Egan as a war memorial.<ref>{{cite web|title=Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Grace & St Edward: Parish History|url=http://parish.rcdow.org.uk/chiswick/about-the-parish/|publisher=Diocese of Westminster|access-date=20 March 2015}}</ref>

The [[Cathedral of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God and the Holy Royal Martyrs]] with its characteristic blue onion dome with gold stars is in Harvard Road. The [[Russian Orthodox Diocese of Great Britain and Western Europe|Russian Orthodox]] church built it in 1998.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jeffery |first=Paul |title=England's other cathedrals |date=2012 |publisher=History Press |location=Stroud, UK |isbn=9780752490359}}</ref>