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MEHRA [email protected] TEL: 020 7351 4831 EMAIL: [email protected] ACCOUNTS: SARAH BRAITHWAITE [email protected] [email protected] EDITOR: PAT TUNSTALL TRANSFORM THIS YEAR EB ESIGN HILIP ARR WEB + SHOW THEM YOUR RESULTS WITH DOLPHIN SQUARE GYM W D : P C : www.eyepublications.co.uk GYM.DOLPHINSQUARE.CO.UK 020 779 88686 DOLPHIN SQUARE | PIMLICO | SW1 3LX [email protected] ST PETER'S CHURCH, EATON SQUARE St Peter’s offers a warm welcome to a mixed community in Victoria, was built between 1824 and 1827 during the first development of Belgravia and Pimlico, and have a diverse congregation who come Eaton Square. The interior was, as was common at the time, a from other areas of London too. Each Sunday they offer a lively "preaching box ", with galleries in three sides and the organ and Family Eucharist attended by lots of families and children, and a choir at the west end. James Elmes called the effect "chaste and Sung Eucharist with an outstanding professional choir and beautiful simple ". liturgy. As an inclusive church all are warmly welcomed. We seek to worship God together, to serve others and to proclaim the gospel of This building burnt down, and in 1837 was rebuilt from Hakewill's God’s love made known in Jesus Christ. We have a pre-school drawings by one of his sons. The original building was a group called the Poppets, who meet twice each week, a Youth Commissioners' church, receiving a grant from the Church Building Group, Pilgrim and Faith Groups and regular quiet days and retreats. Commission towards its cost. The full cost of the building was We are delighted to be involved in the exciting community around £22,427 (equivalent to £1,960,000 in 2019) towards which the the church, in outreach work to the homeless, refugees and with our Commission paid £5,556. neighbours in other lands, and we host daily AA meetings. St Peter's is a popular venue for concerts and events, we have our own excel- In 1875, the church was enlarged and reordered to designs by Sir lent concert series, the Eaton Square Concerts, and many charities Arthur Blomfield, who hold functions and added a chancel at meetings here. We are the east end and home to the north and south Knightsbridge transepts and "fiercely Kindergarten and the normanized " the Body Doctor, who are interior. Internally based in the crypts of Blomfield's chancel the church. We have a and transepts are very special relation- Romanesque Revival, ship with St Peter's but externally they Church of England conform with Primary School, and Hakewill's their pupils regularly neoclassical style. come to use the church for assemblies and From its founding St worship. Peter's, Eaton Square, Pimlico and until at The Vicar of St Peter’s, least 1878 was usual- Revd Ralph ly recorded as St Williamson, was Peter's, Pimlico. In ‘Collated ’ to the parish 1953 the crypt con- in April 2015. taining some 400 buri- Previously Ralph was als was cleared and College Chaplain at the remains reinterred at Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey. Christ Church, Oxford, a Team Vicar in Herefordshire and Curate at St Andrew’s Southgate, and was ordained in the London Diocese. On 20th October 1987 an anti-Catholic arsonist set fire to the east He is a qualified Psychodynamic Counsellor and is married with two end, in the mistaken belief that the building was a Roman Catholic children. Revd Julie Khovacs joined the parish as Assistant Priest in chapel. Within hours the church was engulfed. By the next day the September 2015 and moved from a curacy at Ashford Parish fire was out but only the Georgian shell of the building remained. It Church. Originally from the USA, Julie studied Theology in Canada was roofless, with most of its furnishings destroyed. and Scotland, and trained at Wescott House in Cambridge. Her husband is also ordained and serving a curacy in London. Revd Ros The church needed total rebuilding. The Braithwaite Partnership of Trafford-Roberts is the Honorary Assistant Priest and two other architects was appointed to completely redesign the building with a clergy, Revd Ron Swan and Revd Tony Kyriakides also sometimes new and simpler interior, and to incorporate within the site a vicarage, preach and celebrate at St Peter’s. offices, flats for a curate, verger and music director, a meeting hall, nursery school rooms and a large playroom for the church's youth club. 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LFB have declared that an undetected fire which spreads “would FIRE RISKS FOUND AT VICTORIA COACH STATION pose a significant risk to life from the products of combustion and Victoria Coach Station has been given a fire enforcement notice delay firefighting operations.” after concerns were raised from fire experts that revealed a “catalogue of major fire risks”. The automatic fire alarm system did not have enough wide coverage for passengers to hear, as well as an untested battery smoke detector The safety risks that were found at the busy coach station included: being used in the mezzanine area. * Holes in walls, which could cause a fire to spread Inadequate and broken sprinklers, which were out of use for * Holes in walls were discovered in various areas of the coach station, ....more than two years including the basement maintenance area, ticket office storeroom, Unclear fire escape signage and notices, which could mislead * service area behind the information desk, mezzanine level, service ....and confuse people, in the event of a fire cupboard of men’s toilet in the North East Terminal, electrical intake No evidence that an evaluation of risks had taken place * room at the arrivals terminal and finally, the gas intake room in the Fire staircase from maintenance workshop used for storage * office block. This will allow smoke and heat to spread rapidly and increase the severity of the fire. The report highlighted that fire exit signs at the station were of “mixed standards ”, other signs were “contradictory ” in the mobility A fire safety expert described it as a “walking disaster area ” for the lounge, while “degraded ” signs in the maintenance workshop, was 14 million passengers, that Victoria Coach Station has annually, as also mentioned. investigations found that customer safety had not been prioritised. TFL has appointed a contractor to reinstate the coach station’s sprinklers and have deployed 24/7 fire watchers while this project is completed. The notice has prompted MP for Cities of London and Westminster, Nickie Aiken, to contact the deputy mayor of London and the Transport Commissioner with her concerns. She said: “I’m greatly concerned to learn that TfL has received an enforcement notice by the London Fire Service for Victoria Coach Station. Passenger and employee safety should be the top priority. I hope and expect that TfL will take this issue very seriously and comply.” It also referenced that no live or mock emergency evacuation had taken place. A TFL spokeswoman said the last full evacuation exercise was taken on 4th October 2019, “with partial evacuation exercise on 14 October 2019.” Mock emergency evacuation exercises are crucial in spotting any problems that need to be improved, and train staff in the procedures of evacuation. However, the report said that employees had not been given “clear and relevant information ” about fire alarms at the coach station and fire suppression systems, which could “lead to delays and impede firefighting.” An evaluation, carried out by London Fire Brigade experts, on the According to a Transport for London spokeswoman, the last full sprinklers at the East Terminal departures canopy revealed that evacuation exercise had taken place on 4th October and a ‘partial they had not been working since 2017, highlighting the risk of fire evacuation exercise’ on 14th October 2019.