Seventh Church of Christ Scientist, Wright's Lane, Kensington, London W8

This now-mutilated building, like many other Christian Scientists places of worship, has the flavour of a hall rather than of a traditional English church It was built in l926—8 on land left over from the Iverna Court development to designs by Paul Philips. It was preceded by a temporary church, erected on the same site in 1919—20 by Humphreys Limited to house the congregation of the Seventh Church of Christ Scientist, previously established In Queen's Gate Hall, Harrington Road.

Oswald Milne and Paul Phipps, then in partnership, produced drawings for a permanent church in January 1924, but Phipps took over the commission when the partners separated soon afterwards The church was built in two stages, the south end (1926) preceding the north end (1927-8).  Oscar Faber, the expert in reinforced concrete, was the engineer and E Burgess the main contractor The building as completed had two entrances in Wrights Lane It contained a hall (used for a Sunday school) and offices at ground level, and a large, bare auditorium above, filled With serried ranks of pews beneath a plaster ceiling of wide span Two tones of brick and a measure of Portland stone are used in the elevations towards Wrights Lane and Iverna Court, which were described at the time as being in the manner of Chelsea Hospital.  In 1985 the northern two-thirds of the church was demolished. This portion of the building is being replaced at the time of writing with a seven-storey block of offices and flats (F J Henson, architect, for Taylor Woodrow Properties), while the Christian Scientists will continue to occupy the remainder. [British History on line. Survey of London, Volume 42]