43-526: Brompton or The Brompton may refer to: Brompton, London Brompton (ward) , a former electoral ward of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council that existed from 1964 to 2014 Brompton, Hambleton , north of Northallerton, North Yorkshire, England Brompton, Kent Brompton, Quebec , a borough of Sherbrooke, in Canada Brompton by Sawdon , North Yorkshire, England Brompton,
86-501: A 1 ⁄ 8 SW to WSW radial sector focused on what was for many centuries a geographical point, a bridge, " Knights Bridge (Knightsbridge) ", from which Brompton was always narrowly omitted. That point later became a Crossroads for arterial roads, known as " Scotch Corner ". Boundaries can be traced in the street network with a few small gaps, clockwise from the north: West Brompton became overshadowed by Earls Court which overtook its land, but it extended more broadly than
129-490: A 4 p.m. service on 28 September 2009. In December 2009 the upstairs balcony was recommissioned for worship, having previously been used for administrative offices (the office occupants having moved to HTB's nearby office building purchased in 2008). Services at St Augustine's, Queen's Gate began to be administered from Holy Trinity Brompton following an invitation by the Bishop of Kensington in 2010, where Nicky Gumbel
172-541: A city which itself has a transient population, in particular a large student population who only reside in London during their studies, and that HTB is able to attract; and also in part by the fact that the Alpha course brings in a number of people to HTB who are either visiting the home of Alpha or have completed the course and then quickly move on to other churches or ministries . HTB conducts ten services each Sunday across
215-453: A manor house, and lay to the north. Chelsea was to the south. Its fragmented existence is commemorated chiefly through four of the places listed below. The first recorded mention of Brompton dates back to 1292. It was a rural area which subsequently attracted attention as the story of developments centred along a turnpike road that ran south westward from London through Knightsbridge Green and horticultural Brompton to Little Chelsea and
258-587: A year involving the large HTB choir – at Easter and Christmas – and several free classical concerts that utilise the church's pipe organ, refurbished in 2004, as well as drawing on the talent of the nearby music colleges. In September 2005 HTB started providing the talks given at the Sunday services as free downloads from its website and through their iTunes , YouTube and SoundCloud account. These downloads, which HTB has termed HTB Podcasts , have proved popular and, more recently, other talks specifically provided for
301-454: A year. This also involves at least one member of HTB's clergy similarly moving to the new church to help lead worship, form pastorates and run local Alpha courses. Over the years, nine churches have been planted in this way, including St Gabriel's, Cricklewood , with some of these churches going on to make church plants of their own. HTB also has thriving children's, youth and student ministries. Other activities HTB undertakes are services twice
344-477: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Brompton, London Brompton , sometimes called Old Brompton , survives in name as a ward in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. Until the latter half of the 19th century it was a scattered village made up mostly of market gardens in the county of Middlesex . It lay southeast of
387-501: Is now run as a separate enterprise with separate fundraising and accounting, but it remains closely tied to HTB, with most of Alpha's staff being accommodated in HTB's offices. The clergy of HTB also share Alpha duties such as overseeing Alpha conferences and training events in the UK and overseas. Since the mid-1990s, the Alpha course programme has remained largely unchanged allowing the energy of
430-537: Is suggested by the above sectors, to have a long border along the hidden Counter's Creek , (today's West London line ), with the Hammersmith and Fulham borough boundary, then back along the Cromwell Road / Queen's Gate through Gloucester Road . The rest of "South Kensington" and Kensington proper, including the first manor, centred on what became a royal palace ( Kensington Palace ), instead of simply
473-733: The pop-up retail currently occupying the John Young condemned buildings, in the vicinity of Lillie Bridge (Fulham) and West Brompton station . Holy Trinity Brompton Holy Trinity Brompton with St Paul's, Onslow Square and St Augustine's, South Kensington , often referred to simply as HTB , is an Anglican church in London , England. The church consists of six sites: HTB Brompton Road, HTB Onslow Square ( formerly St Paul's, Onslow Square ), HTB Queen's Gate ( formerly St Augustine's, South Kensington ), HTB Courtfield Gardens ( formerly St Jude's Church, Kensington – officially in
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#1732773318704516-552: The Brompton Oratory . This created the long driveway from Brompton Road to the relative tranquil of HTB. The most recent major modification was during the 1980s when HTB's crypt was rebuilt to provide meeting rooms and space for a bookshop. Also during this time, the pews were removed and replaced with chairs to allow greater flexibility in seating arrangements. Source: St Paul's Church in Onslow Square
559-571: The City of Westminster , again due to the tube network it is commonly marked on maps as part of "Knightsbridge" district. Brompton (or very rarely New Brompton ) had a jagged north-eastern limit owing to the medieval permanent assignation of Kensington Gore to Westminster . According to the Church of England this has been simplified so that a three-church parish Holy Trinity Brompton – St Paul's, Onslow Square and St Augustine's, Queen's Gate takes up
602-606: The College of Arms created for it a new coat of arms which included its Brompton roots. The crest contains a broom bush which represents the link between the two former boroughs' connection with the 'Brompton' ward. The area is now part of the Chelsea constituency . In medieval times Brompton was famous for its gorse fields. The name was a corruption of 'broom tun', meaning a gorse farm. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has confined its "Brompton Conservation Area" to but
645-592: The HTB network . Church Plants Overseas: The Alpha course was founded by clergy at HTB who, over a period of twenty years, kept adapting the programme in accordance with feedback until in the early 1990s, when the Alpha course started gaining worldwide attention. As Alpha grew it became the main focus for HTB as it sought to support Alpha's spread and growth. Today, this involves the production of advertising material and course material such as videos, books and tapes for each Alpha session and leader training material. Alpha
688-493: The Bell and Horns, an inn sited opposite the [Brompton Oratory], where Empire House now stands. After the frontages of Brompton Road nearer London had been built up, the original nucleus of Brompton became known as Old Brompton and Brompton Lane as Old Brompton Road—which name survives today except in the short stretch east of South Kensington Station, where its line is represented by Thurloe Place. Before 1863 therefore, 'Brompton Road'
731-533: The Commission paid £7,407. The architect was Thomas Leverton Donaldson . Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building . After three years of construction, the church was consecrated on 6 June 1829 by the Bishop of London. The same building stands today, although it has been considerably modified. In 1852 a portion of Holy Trinity Brompton's land was sold to the Roman Catholic Church to build
774-694: The HTB Podcast community have also been offered, including answers to questions sent in by listeners. Each month the total download count from this catalogue of talks is over 40,000, with some talks making it into the top ten in the "Religion and Spirituality" section for iTunes. In 2011 HTB formed the William Wilberforce Trust to bring together various social action projects that were linked with HTB. These projects include work in deprived neighbourhoods, addressing homelessness and providing practical support for people with addictions. HTB
817-643: The St Paul's Anglican Fellowship and remaining based at St Paul's with John Peters . This last group left in 2002 to plant into St Mary's, Bryanston Square. During 2007, after plans by HTB to rebuild the 1960s offices were withdrawn following difficulty in getting support from local residents, HTB decided to undertake some renovations and to resume services in the church. St Paul's launched 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. services in September 2007 and followed with an 11 a.m. service on 20 January 2008 and
860-572: The ancient parish of Fulham on the banks of the Thames and thence over Putney Bridge onto the County of Surrey . Brompton Park Nurseries were founded in 1681 by four leading gardeners, led by George London . In the late 18th century, Carey's map of 1787 shows Brompton as a collection of market gardens. A hundred years later, Charles Dickens Jr. (eldest child of Charles Dickens ) wrote in his 1879 book Dickens's Dictionary of London that "Brompton
903-419: The church to develop other initiatives which fit with the Alpha course such as creating courses on marriage preparation, parenting teenagers, bereavement and recovering from divorce, as well as publishing new books. HTB itself runs Alpha courses three times a year, and with these attracting 300–400 guests during each course, they require all of the available space in the church buildings. In order to address
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#1732773318704946-506: The congregation sit on carpet, whilst some couches, cushions and bean bags are also provided. These services are sometimes conducted in the round . Some services reuse the same talk and song list from a service earlier in the day. Another activity of HTB is its yearly church camp, named "Focus". This takes place over the course of a week on the Earl of Normanton 's Somerley Estate , where typically 7,000 people attend and involve themselves in
989-407: The eastern end of this highway was known indiscriminately as the road to Fulham or the road to Brompton. The name 'Brompton', now used loosely, then applied most precisely to the settlement which lay westwards of what is now South Kensington Station, just off the turnpike road along the lane to Earl's Court. This lane, generally called Brompton Lane or Bell and Horns Lane, diverged from the main road at
1032-468: The four sites. The family services include items aimed at children. The formal services feature traditional Church of England liturgy and a professional choir. The informal services centre on a longer period of contemporary worship with a longer talk and close in a reflective prayer mood which extends beyond the end of the service. The 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. services at HTB Onslow Square Church extend this informal nature further as most of
1075-401: The many seminars, workshops and recreational activities. The size also attracts some prominent speakers to speak on issues affecting the church and society. Since 1985, HTB has been actively involved in a process called church planting whereby struggling churches in London are boosted by scores – sometimes hundreds – of people committing to move from HTB to the identified church for at least
1118-432: The names of stops during accelerated urbanisation, but lacking any cogent reference to local history and usage or distinctions from neighbouring settlements. Brompton has been home to many writers, actors and intellectuals. The Survey of London gives a long list. Its name survives formally to this day, only just, in the shared reference to two of the council's electoral wards called, "Brompton" and "Hans Town". Where
1161-431: The old turnpike highway ( Fulham Road ) meets today's Thurloe Place and becomes Brompton Road is sometimes called Brompton Cross . The old village of Brompton carried on straddling the secondary Brompton Lane, later Old Brompton Road , for the whole of its length. In modern terms Old Brompton centred on today's South Kensington tube station , Gloucester Road tube station and their contiguous streets, and continued all
1204-508: The original name of Gillingham F.C. , which the club used until 1912 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Brompton . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brompton&oldid=1232003085 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
1247-472: The other hand, which had opened 1868, was originally called "Gloucester Road, Brompton", but for simplicity dropped the Brompton from its name. Thus, Brompton ceased to be a place or destination. A nod to Brompton resurfaced in 1866 with Sir John Fowler 's "station in the middle of fields", West Brompton station . In 1965 when the historic boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea merged to form one authority,
1290-649: The parish including Brompton by Sawdon Brompton, Shropshire Brompton, South Australia , a suburb in Adelaide, South Australia Brompton-on-Swale , North Yorkshire, England Brompton Oratory , a Catholic church Brompton Bicycle Holy Trinity Brompton Church , an Anglican church Royal Brompton Hospital Brompton cocktail , sometimes called Brompton mixture, an elixir for pain prophylaxis West Brompton , London Brompton Cemetery , London Brompton (surname) Brompton (Fredericksburg, Virginia) , an historic house New Brompton F.C. ,
1333-567: The parish of St Mary of the Bolton's but part of HTB). It is also the home of the St Paul's Theological Centre , HTB St Francis Dalgarno Way, and St Luke's Earls Court . It is where the Alpha Course was first developed. The church buildings accommodate courses, conferences, meetings, and ten services each Sunday. HTB's stated aims are to "play our part in the evangelization of the nations,
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1376-450: The problem of how to give pastoral care to such a large congregation as well as provide a means for new people to join the church, HTB uses the 'Pastorate' model. Pastorates consist of 20–50 people who, through meeting at least once a fortnight, can form strong friendships and support each other in care as well as developing individual gifts and ministries. HTB has quite a transient congregation caused in part by its location in London ,
1419-532: The redundancy be overturned which allowed curate Nicky Lee and his wife Sila to "plant" a congregation there as well as undertake some building structural maintenance work. At its peak in the 1990s, this congregation had grown to several hundred. In 1997, the congregation at St Paul's divided into three, with some going with curate Stuart Lees to plant a church in Fulham ; others returning to Holy Trinity with Prebendary Nicky Lee and his wife, Sila; and others forming
1462-475: The revitalization of the church and the transformation of society." Bishop Sandy Millar was succeeded in July 2005 by Nicky Gumbel as Vicar of HTB, followed by Archie Coates in September 2022. HTB's Associate Vicar is Katherine Chow, who succeeded Nicky Lee and Martyn Layzell . Prior to the construction of Holy Trinity Brompton, the present site was a part of the large parish of Kensington , which
1505-589: The small northern part of the historical village of Brompton. the rest of it is partitioned among several other neighbouring conservation areas. Brompton and Old Brompton are deemed de facto obsolete names by the Tube and postal systems : Developers of the Earls Court Exhibition Centre , Lillie Bridge Depot and extant Victorian residential streets at West Brompton have given birth to an entity called, "West Brompton Crossing" to refer to
1548-778: The village of Kensington , abutting the parish of St Margaret's, Westminster at the hamlet of Knightsbridge to the northeast, with Little Chelsea to the south. It was bisected by the Fulham Turnpike , the main road westward out of London to the ancient parish of Fulham and on to Putney and Surrey . It saw its first parish church, Holy Trinity Brompton , only in 1829. Today the village has been comprehensively eclipsed by segmentation due principally to railway development culminating in London Underground lines, and its imposition of station names, including Knightsbridge , South Kensington and Gloucester Road as
1591-493: The way to West Brompton station , between Earl's Court and Thames -side Chelsea . The historian F.H.W. Sheppard has summarised it thus: "there was always much traffic on the old turnpike road, which linked London not only with Little Chelsea and Fulham but also (via Putney Bridge) with parts of Surrey as well, and which from 1726 to 1826 was maintained by the Kensington Turnpike Trustees. Anciently,
1634-454: Was appointed priest-in-charge . In March 2011, St Augustine's was formally merged into the parish of HTB. Since the 1980s, HTB has been involved in planting churches . This has resulted in a large number of churches that can be linked back to HTB either as a result of being directly planted by the church (so-called daughter churches), or by being the plants of churches planted by HTB (so called granddaughter churches). This web of churches form
1677-407: Was at one time almost exclusively the artists' quarter and is still largely frequented by the votaries of the brush and chisel, though of late years Belgravia has been encroaching upon its boundaries, and Belgravian rents are stealing westward." The village gained its first church in 1829, Holy Trinity Brompton , rapidly incepted a parish. The gradual fragmentation and overshadowing of Brompton
1720-463: Was in general an unofficial term, usually to be construed as meaning the part of the Fulham turnpike road connecting Knightsbridge with Brompton Lane and thus with Old Brompton." Brompton's northern neighbours were the hamlets of Kensington Gore , dated but not dead in use, and Knight's bridge , a crossing over the culverted river Westbourne . As to its old eastern half its administration remains in
1763-487: Was opened in 1860. In the late 1970s, the parish of Holy Trinity Brompton merged with the neighbouring parish of St Paul's Onslow Square . St Paul's was declared redundant . An attempt by the diocese to sell the building for private redevelopment was thwarted in the early 1980s when local residents joined with churchgoers to save the church. In the late 1980s, the Parochial Church Council requested that
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1806-648: Was probably due to two factors: the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the rapid institutional developments in the area, such as museums and colleges; and the arrival of railway transport. The station built in 1868 on the Metropolitan and District Railways to serve the attendant crowds was named South Kensington , not "Brompton". A " Brompton Road station " opened in 1906 for the new Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway ; lack of passengers forced it to close in 1934. Gloucester Road tube station on
1849-503: Was served only by the nearby St Mary Abbots Church. In the early 1820s, the area was in the midst of a substantial population increase, so a decision was taken to purchase the land and construct a new church. The church was a Commissioners' church , receiving a grant from the Church Building Commission towards its cost. The full cost of the church was £10,407 (equivalent to £1,140,000 in 2023), towards which
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