Parish Church, St John the Baptist, Pinner High Street
See separate entry St John the Baptist.
Catholic Church, St Lukes, Love Lane
See separate entry St Lukes.
Elmfield, Imperial Drive.
http://www.elmfield.org
Methodist Church, Love Lane.
The first Methodist church in
Pinner was opened in1844 in Chapel Lane. The first chapel on its present site opened in 1918.
The present church was opened in 1936.
For the history of Pinner's Methodists, see 'Pinner Methodist Church:
Golden Jubilee 1937-1987': booklet at Civic Centre Reference Library [G3f]
United Free Church, Paines Lane.
A Baptist Church was opened in Chapel Lane in1844 and moved to Marsh Road in
1885. The Baptists then moved to the United Free Church in Paines Lane in1910.
Their old building became the Synagogue. [For
the history of Pinner's Baptists, see Dexter, B C , 'Pinner United Free Church,
1860 -1960' at Civic Centre Reference Library:
Ref G3b Pinn]
First Church of Christ Scientist, Bridge Street
Erected in Bridge Street in 1937.
Synagogue, Marsh Road
The Jews took over the old Baptist Chapel in 1941 and erected their present
building on the same site in198?.
St. Anselm's, Hatch End 1895
In 1842, a station named Pinner was opened on the London to Birmingham railway in
the area now known as Hatch End. House building was encouraged by the railway
company, one of the earliest estates being known as Woodridings, where both Mrs Beeton and Emma Nelson Ward, the daughter of Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton had
residences. In those early days, the new residents, like the children of the nearby
Royal Commercial Travellers' School, attended Sunday services at St. John the Baptist
parish church in Pinner, but in 1865, a small corrugated iron building was erected in Devonshire Road, Hatch End, to serve as a chapel of ease. It was named All
Saints and its services were provided by an assistant curate from Pinner. People in
Hatch End continued to regard St. John's as their parish church, as was demonstrated
in the 1880 restoration at Pinner church when a window depicting Christ with all the
saints was installed by the Hatch End congregation "in this, their parish church". Before the end of the century, the chapel of ease was no longer big enough to meet the
needs of the growing population of Hatch End, and moves began to form a new parish. The new parish church, dedicated to St. Anselm who had had close local
(Harrow) connections, was opened in 1895. The name All Saints was not used because the nearby parish in Harrow Weald already had that name.
St Georges, Headstone. Pinner View. 1911
Opened in 1910, this
large Anglican church replaced a temporary chapel that had been in use since
1907. Most of its parish was formed
out of the Southern section of St
Anselm's, Hatch End. [See Civic
Centre Reference Library: Information
File, Headstone, St George's]
St Albans, North Harrow. 1937
Rayners Lane Baptist Church, Imperial Drive. 1935
Quakers Meeting Hall, Rayners Lane.1935.
www.harrow-quakers.org.uk
Methodist Church, Cannon Lane.1976
Methodist Church, Pinner Road. 1927.
The original building of 1927 consisted of an all purpose hall, with ancillary
rooms behind. An additional hall was built in 1930.
The present church and extra rooms were begun in 1949 and opened in 1957. In
1970 a two story building replaced the lower hall with a link covered way
incorporating a creche room.
Pinner Hill Chapel, Pinner Hill Road. Now Pinner Hill Church.
(www.pinnerhillchurch.org)
The Grail, Waxwell Lane.1947
New Testament Church of God, Cannon Lane
In 1960 this church, dedicated to St Martin,
was opened as a daughter church of St Alban's North Harrow, for those
living in the South of its parish. It
ceased to be used as an Anglican church in 1985, and is now used by an
Evangelical sect. [See Civic Centre Reference Library: Information File,
'Pinner Churches - St Martin]
St. John Fisher. Imperial Drive. North Harrow
Up to the mid 1930s, most Catholics living in North Harrow attended St. Luke's Church, Pinner, with some going to churches at Harrow on the Hill or South Harrow.
In 1935, as the population was growing with increased house building in the area, it
was decided to form a new parish in North Harrow. Initially, from 1937, masses on
Sundays were celebrated by the curate from St. Luke's, Pinner in the ballroom of the
Headstone Hotel, a popular social centre opposite North Harrow Station which has
more recently been replaced by an office block. The new church in Imperial Drive,
not yet quite completed, was opened in July 1939, just before the outbreak of war.
When the silver jubilee was celebrated in 1964, the then parish priest, Fr. McKenna, announced that the church building which had had to be left unfinished in 1939 was to be completed and a parish centre built. This work was completed in the next few years. St. John Fisher's is now the second largest Catholic parish in the Harrow area.