2019
TQ3282 : Former Leysian Mission, City Road, Shoreditch, London
taken 5 years ago, near to Shoreditch, Islington, England
Former Leysian Mission, City Road, Shoreditch, London
The former Leysian Mission (i.e. a church and welfare centre) functioned here between 1905-89. It was founded by the Old Boys of The Leys School, Cambridge who were concerned about the social and housing conditions prevailing in the East End. (The Leys School in Cambridge, had been opened in 1875 as “a Methodist Eton”). By 1902 Mission’s Sunday School, with an average attendance of 480 members per week, needed larger premises and as a result the Mission moved from Errol Street into these much grander premises. Included in this complex were a large hall (i.e. church) seating 2,000, a smaller hall, club rooms for men, women, boys and girls, a gymnasium, classrooms and vestries. The Queen Victoria Hall, complete with a new organ, was opened by the, soon-to-be, King George V and Queen Mary in 1904. The Mission’s trustees eventually wound up their involvement here in 1989 and although the building stood empty for many years, in 1998 it was converted into apartments and retail units and renamed Imperial Hall. It is a Grade-II listed building.
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