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Meet the Team. Revd Stephen Baxter became the Parish Priest of St Stephen Walbrook in March 2018. After training at St Mellitus College he was ordained in 2014 and spent three and half years as Curate and then Associate Vicar of St Olave Hart Street and St Katharine Cree in the City of London. Email him at priest@ststephenwalbrook.net.
St Stephen Walbrook offers Eucharist, Organ Recitals, Evensong, Choral Classics, and Community Choir. Also see this page for regular News Bulletins.
We welcome visits to St Stephen Walbrook by school groups but these need to be booked in advance with our Administrator tel: 02076269000 or email: office@ststephenwalbrook.net Church Hire With its breath-taking interior, St Stephen Walbrook is used by many businesses and organisations for carol services, concerts and recitals, exhibitions, drama, and other social functions throughout the year.
St Stephen Walbrook, re-built in 1680 after the great fire of London, is one of Christopher Wren’s most famous churches, a timeless work of art and, as stated by the prominent art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, one of the 10 most important buildings in England. St Stephen Walbrook was built on the site of a 2nd century Roman temple and later ...
St Stephen Walbrook was the birthplace of The Samaritans, the world’s first telephone helpline and continues its ministry of wellbeing today through arts, music and spiritual support to those ...
Some see St Stephen Walbrook as Christopher Wren’s major city church after the Cathedral. It was a difficult church to rebuild after the Great Fire. Some of the crypt remained and the Walbrook River caused water problems for any designer. Christopher Wren by Godfrey Kneller 1711. Walbrook is named after the source of water which brought life ...
Henry Moore. At the heart of the redevelopment at St Stephen Walbrook there is a major statement about the theology of the Church in the city. That is the large altar by Henry Moore commissioned by Lord Palumbo for the church during it’s restoration in 1978. It was carved in 1972. St Stephen Walbrook was the only church designed by Wren in ...
