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1912 |
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The owner of Turpington Farm offered to sell part of an orchard across the road from the farm as the site for a 'Tin Tabernacle' mission chapel, to be used as part of the parish of St Luke, Bromley Common. |
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1946 |
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The Diocese of Rochester purchased the site of Blackbrook House, which had been badly damaged in 1940 when a parachute mine landed nearby. This was about half a mile to the east of the church and closer to the centre of the parish and the site of a new church to be built by Victor Heal. |
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1957 |
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After many years of fundraising, the foundation stone was laid on 28 Sept. |
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1958 |
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The new church was consecrated in October. It was supplied with a small bell hanging in an open gable. |