St Andrew's Church, Ham

The church was built in grey brick in 1830–31; the architect was Edward Lapidge. A south aisle with a rose window, designed by Raphael Brandon, was added in 1860, and a chancel in red brick, by Bodley & Garner, in 1900–01.[1]

The church has 32 windows; eleven with stained glass installed between 1901 and 1948, four of which are by Shrigley & Hunt. The three-light window at the west end by Hugh Ray Easton, installed in 1932, shows Saint Andrew in the centre, flanked by scenes of baptism and confirmation.[4] Surrounding the high altar are eight large paintings of prophets and evangelists.[5]

There is a memorial stained glass window to Sir George Dance (1857–1932), a dramatist and theatrical manager, and his son Erik who died in a prison camp in World War II.

There are also funerary hatchments at the back of the church dedicated to Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart and his wife Countess Grace.

• Violet Hyachinth Bowes-Lyon (1882-1893) died of diphtheria at Forbes House on Ham Common. Her father was Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and she was elder sister to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, The Queen Mother.
• General William Eden (1768-1851) army officer who was awarded a gold medal at the capture of Java from the Dutch in 1811; he lived on Ham Common.[6]
• Joshua Field J.P. (1829-1904) Deputy Lieut. for Surrey, who lived at Latchmere House, son of Joshua Field FRS.[7]
• Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston (1828–1909), English geologist.
• Sir Coutts Lindsay, 2nd Baronet (1824–1913), was a British artist and watercolourist.
• Captain Lauchlan Bellingham Mackinnon (1815–1877), captain in the Royal Navy who wrote three books about his experiences.
• John Minter Morgan (1782–1854), was an English author and philanthropist who founded the National Orphan Home on Ham Common in 1849.
• Sir Richard Owen (1804–1892), English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist.
• Charles Gottlieb Pfander (1803–1865) of the Church Missionary Society.
• Admiral Sir Peter Richards KCB (1787–1869), Royal Navy officer who went on to be Third Sea Lord.
• Frederick G Rudler (1887-1936) Twice Mayor of the City of Westminster 1933-1935. There is bust of him in the Richmond Reference Library.[8]
• Hugh Colin Smith (1836–1910) was an English banker who was Governor of the Bank of England from 1897–99.
• Sarah Smith (1832–1911), English writer of children's books under the pen name Hesba Stretton.[9]

The cemetery also contains the graves of three war dead: Irene Daisy Collett of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (d 1943), Ronald Oswald Dibben of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (d 1942) and William Samuel Hudson Palmer of the Royal Flying Corps (d 1917).[10][11][12][13] Also the grave of Dr. Frederick Carson who was a captain in the R.A.M.C. in WW1 and was awarded the Military Cross in 1918.[14]

The church has a service on Sunday mornings, a Sunday School for children between the ages of 3 to 11 years and a youth group for older children.

On the initiative of a German-speaking congregation established in 1979 by parents of pupils attending the German School nearby in Petersham, Lutheran services in the German language have been held at St Andrew's since 1980. The services are held twice a month on Sunday afternoons, with a concurrent Sunday school. There are also regularly scheduled Ecumenical services shared by the Anglican St Andrew’s congregation and the German-speaking Catholic congregation.[15] (which holds services at St Thomas Aquinas, Ham).

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  View from the cemetery
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  The altar
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  Chancel
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  Harvest Festival
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  East window
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  Sir George Dance window

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