The Parish Church
of St Jude-on-the-Hill

What makes Proms at St Jude's so special is the church of St Jude-on-the-Hill in leafy Hampstead Garden Suburb, where nearly all the concerts are held. This magnificent building is renowned for its acoustics and is considered to be one of Edwin Lutyens's finest creations.
From anywhere in Hampstead Garden Suburb and from many of its approaches, the magnificent spire and roof are a familiar sight.
The church is 200 feet long externally; 122 feet internally from the west door to the chancel steps; and 40 feet to the highest part of the roof. The spire rises 178 feet from the ground.
The dedication to St Jude recalled the parish of St Jude, Whitechapel, where founder Henrietta Barnett’s husband, Canon Samuel Barnett, was vicar for 21 years.
Simon Jenkins, in his book England’s Thousand Best Churches, describes the exterior of St Jude’s as being ‘Wren in style to the east, with brick walls and round-headed windows, and English vernacular to the west, with a huge roof that sweeps low over the eaves. He continues: ‘The interior is designed on cathedral proportions if not scale. The brickwork, round arches, barrel vaults, saucer domes, apses and decoration share the Byzantine theme of the tower. Yet the aisles might be those of a simple Tudor parish church with painted beams and low walls...’.

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Jennifer Radice