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St Patrick's Church is an Anglican church in Hove, in the English city of Brighton and Hove. Situated on a narrow site in Cambridge Road, off Western Road close to the boundary with Brighton, it is still in use as a place of worship but since 1985 it has also been used as a night shelter and hostel for homeless people. St Patrick's night shelter was closed in 2012 but the church still offers long term stay hostel services for single homeless people with support needs. ==History== The Brunswick Estate had been developed from 1824 onwards at the eastern edge of Hove, on the border with Brighton, on land originally belonging to Wick Farm. In 1851, the whole of the Wick Farm estate passed into the control of the Brunswick Square Commissioners. This land was rapidly developed as a residential area by Sir Isaac Goldsmid, 1st Baronet. St Andrew's Church in Waterloo Street, nominally the church of the Brunswick Estate, was a long way from this new housing and, being used mainly by the aristocratic classes, only had eighty pews which were not subject to pew rental fees. This made it unsuitable for the lower-class, poorer residents of the new development, so an Irish-born priest, Dr James O'Brien, decided to build another church in the area. As with several other churches in Brighton and Hove at that time, this was a proprietary chapel which he owned and ran himself, gaining an income from pew rents, marriage and funeral fees and various other sources. An Act of Parliament was normally needed before a proprietary chapel could be built, but none was granted in the case of this church.〔 Construction started in July 1857 and the church was opened under licence on 20 October 1858. The Bishop of Chichester, Dr Ashurst Turner Gilbert, attended the first service.〔 In its first few years, the church was known as St James' Church; it changed to St Patrick's and St James became St Patrick's in 1868.〔 The cost of construction was nearly £13,500, although rental income from some of the pews helped to offset this.〔 The church was given a parish on 21 August 1885 by Rev. Ridley Daniel-Tyssen, one of the O'Briens' seven nephews, who took control of the church after his uncle's death despite a High Court challenge at the Court of Chancery from another nephew who contended that he should have inherited the church: Dr O'Brien had not written in his will that Daniel-Tyssen was to receive the church and the curacy, and his wife's will incorrectly stated that he had. The Bishop of Chichester had been called as a witness.〔〔 In the late 20th century the parish was amalgamated with that of St Andrew's Church on Waterloo Street, which was closed and declared redundant in 1990. It now (covers ) the area between Holland Road, Lansdowne Road, the Brighton/Hove boundary and the seafront. The Revd Dr Steven Underdown was appointed Priest-in-Charge of St Patrick's in October 2009. He had been involved with parish during the 1980s and '90s and in 2002 had submitted a successful PhD thesis (Kings's College London) which was concerned in part with the life and worship of St Patrick's.〔''The Christian Week and the Paschal Mystery: A Study in the Theology of Liturgical Time, Personhood and Christian Education'', King's College London 2002; copy available in the British Library〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St Patrick's Church, Hove」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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