Talbot Tabernacle Notting Hill London Antique Real Photo Postcard

bg946  Antique real photo postcard of Notting Hill's Talbot Tabernacle unused bar very small or light surface places in outstanding unused condition (ex minus) and this has early local great character.

"...Originally known as The Talbot Tabernacle (in the 1850s the freehold of nearby Portobello Farm was still owned by the Talbot family), the Tabernacle was founded as an evangelical Christian church in 1869 by the former barrister Gordon Forlong 18191908, in order to serve as a "non-sectarian Church of Christ". Forlong had been a preacher at the Victoria Hall in Archer Street, and was soon able to raise the capital to build a temporary iron church, with a capacity of around 1,000 people. The iron church was larger than most similar buildings in Kensington, and had an end gallery.(ref. 146) The present building was constructed in 1887 during the ministry of Frank Henry White, and was designed by architects Habershon and Fawckner...."