Highgate United Reformed Church
Highgate London
N6 6BA
Who we are
Highgate United Reformed Church is medium-sized congregation of all ages that draws strength from worshipping God and working together to serve the local community. The central act of our church is our weekly worship of the triune God, and central to our worship is the proclamation of the Word of God in the sermon. We celebrate the Lord's Supper on the second Sunday of the month. During Sunday worship we provide Junior Church for children and a creche for babies & toddlers.
Church Website
Leadership
Leader Name:
Rev. David E.P.Currie
Leader Position:
Minister
Phone:
Leader Email:
Click here to contact Rev. David E.P.Currie
Administration
Admin Name:
Patricia Judd
Admin Position:
Administrator
Admin Address:
Pond Square Chapel
Phone:
Admin Email:
Click here to contact Patricia Judd
Driving Directions to Highgate United Reformed Church
Travel/Direction Tips
Northern Line: Archway & Highgate stations. Buses: 271, 143, 210, 214.
Parking
The Chapel has no car park. Street car parking is restricted 10 am to 12 noon Mondays to Fridays but some pay bays are available. Otherwise street parking is unrestricted and in demand! Bicycles can be locked to railings on street or in front garden.
Highgate United Reformed Church Service Times
Sunday Morning Service: 10.30am
Our corporate worship normally follows the pattern: the Praise of God; Ministry of the Word; Response to the Word. Within this pattern we sing hymns and psalms, pray, listen to God’s Word in Scripture read and preached, and respond to the Word.
The first part of the service aims to be accessible to children in its language and format. After the children go out to Kidz Klub in the Hall, the second part of the service is directed principally to adults. On Fourth Sunday of the month Fun Sunday for children runs in parallel with the worship service. Occasionally we have services where all ages worship together throughout.
Holy Communion
On the Second Sunday of each month (and for selected festivals) the ‘response to the Word’ includes the Sacrament of Holy Communion, when adults and children are invited to share the bread and wine standing in a large circle around the Communion Table.
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Our corporate worship normally follows the pattern: the Praise of God; Ministry of the Word; Response to the Word. Within this pattern we sing hymns and psalms, pray, listen to God’s Word in Scripture read and preached, and respond to the Word.
The first part of the service aims to be accessible to children in its language and format. After the children go out to Kidz Klub in the Hall, the second part of the service is directed principally to adults. On Fourth Sunday of the month Fun Sunday for children runs in parallel with the worship service. Occasionally we have services where all ages worship together throughout.
Holy Communion
On the Second Sunday of each month (and for selected festivals) the ‘response to the Word’ includes the Sacrament of Holy Communion, when adults and children are invited to share the bread and wine standing in a large circle around the Communion Table.
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Worship Languages
English
Dress Code
Sunday School / Children and Youth Activities
Under 12s:
Creche (0-2)
Junior Church (3-11)
Junior Church (3-11)
Local outreach & community activities
Baby Stay and Play
Open Door Gathering
Cold Weather Shelter (seasonal)
Open Door Gathering
Cold Weather Shelter (seasonal)
Other activities & ministries
Home Group
Special Needs/Accessibility
Induction Loop; Disabled Lift & Toilet; Baby-changing Facility
Prayers and Hymns
Main Bible:
Revised Standard Version
Hymns and Songs:
Rejoice & Sing; Common Ground; Taize
Other information
Average Adult Congregation:
30
Additional Info:
The large Hall and Sanctuary are regularly let for community classes and events
Highgate United Reformed Church History
History
By Patricia, November 24, 2009
Where did it all start?
Like all Reformed Churches, the United Reformed Church claims continuity with the Church catholic. The origins of religious dissent (Protestants who dissented from the Church of England) in Highgate go back to the Act of Uniformity, 1662, when those who could not in conscience conform to its episcopal and royalist and liturgical strictures refused to opt into the Church of England and were thus ejected (known as ‘the Great Ejectment’). Following this, the Five Mile Act of 1665 decreed that Ministers ejected from the Church of England had to live at least five miles from city, borough, or town boundaries. Highgate is just over five miles from Charing Cross. Highgate was also at the far reaches of the parishes of St Pancras and Hornsey, thus, far enough away from the religious and political establishments to become a gathering place for religious dissenters and political parliamentarians.
In 1662 William Rathband, graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who had been ejected from his church in Essex, bought a “Great Howse” in Highgate (probably on the High Street) in which dissenters probably met. The first documentary evidence of a dissenting meeting dates from 1672, when another graduate of Emmanuel College and ejected Minister, John Storer, was granted a licence for a “Presbyterian Meeting” that had to be confined to “his owne house in the Towne of High Gate.” The congregation would later become Independent (when the Presbyterians became Unitarian) and then Congregationalist.
In 1887 a new Presbyterian Church was planted in Highgate (Cromwell Avenue) which, in 1967, united with the Congregationalists to form Union Church, Highgate. In 1972 it became the United Reformed Church, Highgate, when most Congregationalists (in England and Wales) and Presbyterians (in England) united.
The long and fascinating history of our congregation can be found in summary form in the second leaflet below, and more fully in Highgate Dissenters – their history since 1660 by John Thompson, £9 plus postage (to order a copy Email). Our present building: the Pond Square Chapel
Built in 1859, it is now the only functioning nonconformist chapel of historic religious dissent (Presbyterian and Congregational) in Highgate. There are two antecedent buildings still standing in Highgate: one in Southwood Lane is now the Library for Highgate School; the other in Cromwell Avenue has been converted into domestic apartments. Who built the Pond Square Chapel?
George Carter to the design of Thomas Roger Smith. The Minister who launched the appeal was Josiah Viney, also a local philanthropist. He had built, for example, twelve model houses for poorer people in Highgate, which are still standing today in North Road.
By Patricia, November 24, 2009
Where did it all start?
Like all Reformed Churches, the United Reformed Church claims continuity with the Church catholic. The origins of religious dissent (Protestants who dissented from the Church of England) in Highgate go back to the Act of Uniformity, 1662, when those who could not in conscience conform to its episcopal and royalist and liturgical strictures refused to opt into the Church of England and were thus ejected (known as ‘the Great Ejectment’). Following this, the Five Mile Act of 1665 decreed that Ministers ejected from the Church of England had to live at least five miles from city, borough, or town boundaries. Highgate is just over five miles from Charing Cross. Highgate was also at the far reaches of the parishes of St Pancras and Hornsey, thus, far enough away from the religious and political establishments to become a gathering place for religious dissenters and political parliamentarians.
In 1662 William Rathband, graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who had been ejected from his church in Essex, bought a “Great Howse” in Highgate (probably on the High Street) in which dissenters probably met. The first documentary evidence of a dissenting meeting dates from 1672, when another graduate of Emmanuel College and ejected Minister, John Storer, was granted a licence for a “Presbyterian Meeting” that had to be confined to “his owne house in the Towne of High Gate.” The congregation would later become Independent (when the Presbyterians became Unitarian) and then Congregationalist.
The long and fascinating history of our congregation can be found in summary form in the second leaflet below, and more fully in Highgate Dissenters – their history since 1660 by John Thompson, £9 plus postage (to order a copy Email). Our present building: the Pond Square Chapel
Built in 1859, it is now the only functioning nonconformist chapel of historic religious dissent (Presbyterian and Congregational) in Highgate. There are two antecedent buildings still standing in Highgate: one in Southwood Lane is now the Library for Highgate School; the other in Cromwell Avenue has been converted into domestic apartments. Who built the Pond Square Chapel?
George Carter to the design of Thomas Roger Smith. The Minister who launched the appeal was Josiah Viney, also a local philanthropist. He had built, for example, twelve model houses for poorer people in Highgate, which are still standing today in North Road.
"There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God".Brother Lawrence
Highgate United Reformed Church listing was last updated on the 17th of May, 2018
