I must have walked past the church many times and not noticed it. The Baptist church in Harrow. It is just around the corner from McDonalds, a few yards from Harrow on the Hill station. Just near the statue of Lucy with her skipping rope.
In January two groups held meetings there. Harrovian Toastmasters International speakers club, and the Liberal MP group.
Harrovians speakers met in the sanctuary, which contains a sunken baptismal area, a bit like Jewish mikvah or ritual bath, like a Jacuzzi, but square, and deeper, with steps down. Total immersion.
If you wish to attend a meeting such as the Sunday church service, Harrovian Toastmasters, or another event such as a political or local group meeting, the address is below.
If you walk from St George's car park through St George's indoor mall into the pedestrian open air area of shops, you pass Primark and several shops selling food and clothes and Santander and Poundland. When you emerge into Station Road, with Debenhams on your left, instead turn right towards McDonalds. The next turning containing the station is not station road but is called College Road, presumably because it once led towards a college or Harrow School. The church entrance is only two along but set back behind a metal gate and railings, a modern vertical wall but clearly marked as a church.
Harrow Baptist Church
College Road
Harrow
Middlesex
England
UK
Contrast the modern with the ancient. At the top of the Harrow hill is the old church where the poets and writers would visit and the boys from Harrow school.
Old Harrow on the Hill. Photo by Angela Lansbury.
Take the bus up from the bus station near the modern church.
Useful Websites
http://www.harrovians.org.uk/
https://www.harrow-baptist.org.uk/welcome.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_baptism
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/02/harrow-on-hill-station-is-being.html
Photos will be added later.
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