Current Places of Worship
| Name | Image | Area/ Coordinates |
Denomination/ Affiliation |
Grade | Notes | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmadiyya Mosque | Langley Green 51°07′35″N 0°11′34″W / 51.1264°N 0.1927°W / 51.1264; -0.1927 (Ahmadiyya Mosque, Langley Green) |
Muslim (Ahmadiyya) | E !– | This building was bought by Crawley's Ahmadiyya community in April 2012 and has been reordered to form a mosque which will officially open in 2013. It was the first permanent church used by the Elim Pentecostal community of Crawley when it opened in 1971, but went out of use when the congregation moved to Ifield. | ||
| Broadfield Islamic Centre and Mosque | Broadfield 51°05′51″N 0°12′49″W / 51.0975°N 0.2136°W / 51.0975; -0.2136 (Broadfield Islamic Centre and Mosque, Broadfield) |
Muslim (Sunni) | E !– | A house in Broadfield had been used as a mosque since the early 1980s. An Islamic community centre, incorporating the new Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, was built in 1994. Also known as Crawley Mosque, it follows the Sunni tradition of Islam. | ||
| ChristChurch | Southgate 51°06′29″N 0°11′05″W / 51.1081°N 0.1847°W / 51.1081; -0.1847 (ChristChurch, Southgate) |
Non-denominational | E !– | The building houses an independent Christian congregation which is associated with New Covenant Ministries International. Originally opened in 1957 as Southgate Hall, a Plymouth Brethren meeting room, it became the Brewer Road Evangelical Church in the 1980s. Its registration under this name was cancelled in July 2008. A later identity was Gateway Church International. | ||
| Christ the Lord Church | Broadfield 51°05′50″N 0°12′11″W / 51.0972°N 0.2031°W / 51.0972; -0.2031 (Christ the Lord Church, Broadfield) |
Anglican, Roman Catholic, Evangelical |
E !– | The brick building of polygonal design, built between 1980 and 1981 as an integral part of the new Broadfield neighbourhood's community centre, is a combined church and community centre shared by the Broadfield Christian Fellowship (an Evangelical congregation), Anglicans and Roman Catholics. The Anglican community is included in the parish of Southgate under St Mary's Church. | ||
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Southgate 51°06′33″N 0°12′03″W / 51.1092°N 0.2008°W / 51.1092; -0.2008 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Southgate) |
Latter-day Saint | E !– | Sir Thomas Bennett, the principal architect of Crawley New Town, designed this chapel and its associated hall himself. It opened in 1964 and was registered for marriages in July of that year. | ||
| Crawley Baptist Church | West Green 51°07′10″N 0°11′39″W / 51.1194°N 0.1942°W / 51.1194; -0.1942 (Crawley Baptist Church, West Green) |
Baptist | E !– | The first Baptist Church in Crawley was established in Station Road in 1883. It was severely damaged by a bomb during World War II, and new premises were built in the West Green neighbourhood in 1954. These were in turn demolished in 2002 to allow the present building to be constructed on the site; this was completed in 2003. | ||
| Crawley Community Church | West Green 51°07′07″N 0°11′52″W / 51.1186°N 0.1977°W / 51.1186; -0.1977 (Crawley Community Church, West Green) |
Charismatic | E !– | This Charismatic church is part of the Newfrontiers movement. Its worship and pastoral centre was originally a former private house in the Southgate neighbourhood, but the church now owns The Charis Centre in West Green—a combined church, community facility and conference venue. It was registered for marriages in August 2012. | ||
| Crawley New Life Church | Furnace Green 51°06′25″N 0°10′18″W / 51.1069°N 0.1717°W / 51.1069; -0.1717 (Crawley New Life Church, Furnace Green) |
Assemblies of God | E !– | This Pentecostalist church, which offers a weekly service on Sundays, is affiliated with the Assemblies of God denomination. It was built in 1981, before which the community used rooms in Crawley town centre. A certification for solemnising marriages was granted in May 1983. | ||
| Crawley Spiritualist Church and Healing Centre | Gossops Green 51°06′37″N 0°12′57″W / 51.1102°N 0.2158°W / 51.1102; -0.2158 (Crawley Spiritualist Church and Healing Centre, Gossops Green) |
Spiritualist | E !– | A Spiritualist community emerged in Crawley in 1950. Worshippers used private houses, halls in West Green and the town centre, and (between 1965 and 1969) the now demolished Goffs Hall in Southgate. The present wooden church in Gossops Green was registered for marriages in April 1970. | ||
| Crawley United Reformed Church | Pound Hill 51°07′09″N 0°09′26″W / 51.1192°N 0.1572°W / 51.1192; -0.1572 (Crawley United Reformed Church, Pound Hill) |
United Reformed Church | D !L | This was founded in 1955 as a Congregational church called Christ Church. Architects Lomas and Pooley designed the building, which opened in 1957. The Congregational and Presbyterian churches united in 1972 to form the United Reformed Church. In December 2010, Christ Church reformed under its present name when the congregation of Trinity Church in Ifield joined. | ||
| Elim Church Crawley | Ifield 51°07′18″N 0°12′21″W / 51.1217°N 0.2058°W / 51.1217; -0.2058 (Elim Church Crawley, Ifield) |
Elim Pentecostal | E !– | This community church moved to this building after the former United Reformed Church congregation for which it was built in 1963 moved to Pound Hill. Trinity United Reformed Church closed in December 2010 and was sold to the Elim Pentecostal Church, who left their old church in Langley Green. | ||
| Green Fields Baptist Church | Tilgate 51°06′07″N 0°10′30″W / 51.1019°N 0.1750°W / 51.1019; -0.1750 (Green Fields Baptist Church, Tilgate) |
Baptist | E !– | Services were initially held in a temporary building on a site bought by the Baptist community in 1957. For a time during the 1960s the church was linked with the main Crawley Baptist Church in West Green. The present building dates from 1970, when it was registered for marriages under the name South Crawley Baptist Church. | ||
| Holy Trinity Church | Tilgate 51°06′04″N 0°10′49″W / 51.1011°N 0.1803°W / 51.1011; -0.1803 (Holy Trinity Church, Tilgate) |
Anglican | E !– | Tilgate's Anglican church was built in 1959 and is included in the parish of Southgate under St Mary's Church. Two services are held every Sunday morning. | ||
| Ifield Friends Meeting House | Ifield 51°07′36″N 0°12′42″W / 51.1267°N 0.2117°W / 51.1267; -0.2117 (Ifield Friends Meeting House, Ifield) |
Quaker | A !I | Built in 1676, the "lovable" ashlar-walled building is one of the oldest purpose-built Quaker places of worship. William Penn and Elizabeth Fry were associated with it in its early years. The roof is gabled and hipped, and an even older cottage is attached. The plain interior is characteristic of old Nonconformist chapels. | ||
| Kingdom Hall | Northgate 51°07′14″N 0°10′54″W / 51.1206°N 0.1817°W / 51.1206; -0.1817 (Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall, Northgate) |
Jehovah's Witnesses | E !– | This opened in 1983 as one of three Kingdom Halls in Crawley. The others had been established in a room on The Broadway in the town centre in 1958 (this is no longer extant) and in Three Bridges in 1965. It was registered for marriages in 1991, and is used by the Broadfield and Ifield Congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses. | ||
| Kingdom Hall | Three Bridges 51°07′01″N 0°09′57″W / 51.1169°N 0.1658°W / 51.1169; -0.1658 (Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall, Three Bridges) |
Jehovah's Witnesses | E !– | First registered in May 1965, the Three Bridges neighbourhood's Kingdom Hall is the older of the two that remain in Crawley. It is used by the Three Bridges and Tilgate Congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses. | ||
| Langley Green Islamic Centre and Mosque | Langley Green 51°07′51″N 0°11′11″W / 51.1308°N 0.1864°W / 51.1308; -0.1864 (Langley Green Islamic Centre and Mosque) |
Muslim (Sunni) | E !– | The mosque, which follows the Sunni tradition, was founded in a converted house on the London Road near the County Oak industrial area in 1984. In 2008, members applied to redevelop the site and build a larger, purpose-built facility. | ||
| Maidenbower Baptist Church | Maidenbower 51°06′30″N 0°09′11″W / 51.1084°N 0.1531°W / 51.1084; -0.1531 (Maidenbower Baptist Church, Maidenbower) |
Baptist | E !– | A Baptist church plant was established in a disused chapel in the town centre in the 1970s. Redevelopment resulted in its closure, and the congregation moved to Crawley's newest neighbourhood, Maidenbower. The community centre was used between 1996 and 2001, when the present church was opened. | ||
| Our Lady Queen of Heaven Church | Langley Green 51°07′29″N 0°12′07″W / 51.1247°N 0.2019°W / 51.1247; -0.2019 (Our Lady Queen of Heaven Church, Langley Green) |
Roman Catholic | E !– | The brick and concrete church, registered for marriages in June 1958, is part of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton's Crawley Parish, consisting of six churches in Crawley and a convent chapel in Copthorne. | ||
| St Alban's Church | Gossops Green 51°06′38″N 0°13′03″W / 51.1106°N 0.2175°W / 51.1106; -0.2175 (St Alban's Church, Gossops Green) |
Anglican | D !L | This brick building with a tall bell tower is part of the parish of Ifield under St Margaret's Church. It was designed by Thomas S. Ford and opened in 1962, although Anglican worship in the neighbourhood had begun four years earlier in a temporary building. | ||
| St Andrew's Church | Furnace Green 51°06′29″N 0°10′07″W / 51.1081°N 0.1686°W / 51.1081; -0.1686 (St Andrew's Church, Furnace Green) |
Anglican | E !– | The original St Andrew's church was built between 1968 and 1969 and was part of the parish of Southgate under St Mary's Church. In 2009 the original church was demolished and replaced with a new building. | ||
| St Barnabas' Church | Pound Hill 51°07′05″N 0°09′17″W / 51.1181°N 0.1547°W / 51.1181; -0.1547 (St Barnabas Church, Pound Hill) |
Anglican | E !– | Built between 1956 and 1957, this large church is a brick structure with an attached hall. | ||
| St Bernadette's Church | Tilgate 51°06′07″N 0°10′59″W / 51.1019°N 0.1831°W / 51.1019; -0.1831 (St Bernadette's Church, Tilgate) |
Roman Catholic | E !– | Built in 1962 and registered for marriages in May of that year, the church is in the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton's Crawley Parish, consisting of six churches in Crawley and a convent chapel in Copthorne. | ||
| St Edward the Confessor's Church | Pound Hill 51°07′00″N 0°08′55″W / 51.1166°N 0.1485°W / 51.1166; -0.1485 (St Edward the Confessor Church, Pound Hill) |
Roman Catholic | D !L | This church was constructed from reinforced concrete in 1965 to the design of Alexander Lane and has an integrated church hall. It is part of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton's Crawley Parish, consisting of six churches in Crawley and a convent chapel in Copthorne. | ||
| St Elizabeth's Church | Northgate 51°07′14″N 0°10′55″W / 51.1206°N 0.1819°W / 51.1206; -0.1819 (St Elizabeth's Church, Northgate) |
Anglican | E !– | Northgate's Anglican church was built in 1958 and enlarged in 1965. Since weekly services stopped in 2005, one Sunday service has been held per month, and the building is also used by The Louise Ryrie School of Dance and Drama. A Performing Arts Sunday school is held every week. | ||
| St Francis and St Anthony's Church | Crawley Town Centre 51°06′48″N 0°11′16″W / 51.1133°N 0.1878°W / 51.1133; -0.1878 (St Francis and St Anthony's Church, Crawley) |
Roman Catholic | C !II | Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel built this church on the site of a Capuchin Franciscan friary. Reordering and renovations took place in 1988 and 2008–09. The church is in the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton's Crawley Parish. | ||
| St John the Baptist's Church | Crawley Town Centre 51°06′50″N 0°11′19″W / 51.1139°N 0.1886°W / 51.1139; -0.1886 (St John the Baptist's Church, Crawley) |
Anglican | B !II* | Crawley's parish church was originally a chapel of ease in the parish of St Mary's Church, Slaugham. It was first mentioned in this context in 1291, and some 13th-century fabric survives. The dedication was first recorded in 1408. Extensive restoration in 1879–80 by Henry Woodyer followed the building of the tower in 1807. | ||
| St Leonard's Church | Langley Green 51°07′40″N 0°11′50″W / 51.1278°N 0.1972°W / 51.1278; -0.1972 (St Leonard's Church, Langley Green) |
Anglican | E !– | Langley Green's Anglican church, built of brick in 1955, is in the parish of Ifield under St Margaret's Church. | ||
| St Margaret's Church | Ifield 51°07′26″N 0°13′10″W / 51.1239°N 0.2194°W / 51.1239; -0.2194 (St Margaret's Church, Ifield) |
Anglican | A !I | Ifield's parish church was built in the 13th century on the site of a 10th-century church and was subsequently extended. Mark Lemon is buried in the extensive churchyard. The exterior is roughcast. The broach spire-topped tower dates from 1883 and has "perplex ... odd and very effective" details such as three tall lancet windows. | ||
| St Mary's Church | Southgate 51°06′20″N 0°11′11″W / 51.1055°N 0.1865°W / 51.1055; -0.1865 (St Mary's Church, Southgate) |
Anglican | D !L | Henry Braddock and D.F. Martin-Smith's 1958 building is designed so that the adjoining church hall can be used as an extension of the main church. The roof has a centrally-positioned flèche on top of a small, boxlike bell tower. One wall consists of concrete slabs pierced with decorative shards of blue glass. It became a parish church in 1959; the churches at Broadfield, Furnace Green and Tilgate are linked to it as part of a Team Ministry. | ||
| St Mary Magdalene's Church (The Barn Church) | Bewbush 51°05′56″N 0°13′46″W / 51.0989°N 0.2294°W / 51.0989; -0.2294 (St Mary Magdalene Church, Bewbush) |
Anglican | C !II | Part of the parish of Ifield, under St Margaret's Church, this is a small "barn church" with strong community involvement. The 17th-century building, part of the now vanished Bewbush Manor Farm, was converted into a church between 1989 and 1999 with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It was consecrated in July 1999. Services in Bewbush had begun before 1984 in another building. | ||
| St Michael and All Angels Church (Horley Gatwick SDA Church) | Lowfield Heath 51°08′45″N 0°10′47″W / 51.1458°N 0.1797°W / 51.1458; -0.1797 (St Michael and All Angels Church, Lowfield Heath) |
Seventh-day Adventist | B !II* | William Burges built this French Gothic Revival church in 1867 as the Anglican parish church of the village of Lowfield Heath. Boundary changes moved it from Surrey into the Borough of Crawley in 1974, but by then the village had been rendered uninhabitable by the expansion of Gatwick Airport. The Diocese of Chichester allowed the Seventh-day Adventist Church to take over the building in 2008. | ||
| St Nicholas' Church (Worth Church) | Worth 51°06′37″N 0°08′30″W / 51.1103°N 0.1416°W / 51.1103; -0.1416 (St Nicholas Church, Worth) |
Anglican | A !I | The parish church of Worth is now within the Borough of Crawley. It is of Saxon origin (probably 11th-century); Nikolaus Pevsner called it "one of the most powerful of Anglo-Saxon churches". It was extended in the 13th century and restored in 1871 (by Anthony Salvin, who added the tower) and 1986. | ||
| St Paul's Methodist Church | Northgate 51°07′13″N 0°10′49″W / 51.1203°N 0.1803°W / 51.1203; -0.1803 (St Paul's Methodist Church, Northgate) |
Methodist | E !– | The present church was built to a polygonal brick design in 1966, and replaced an adjacent building of 1953 which then became the church hall. | ||
| St Peter's Church | West Green 51°06′54″N 0°11′44″W / 51.1150°N 0.1956°W / 51.1150; -0.1956 (St Peter's Church, West Green) |
Anglican | D !L | This large church was designed between 1892 and 1893 by W. Hilton Nash and built by Richard Cook, owner of a large building firm in the town. It replaced a nearby chapel of ease to St Margaret's Church. The Gothic Revival building has a bellcote and sandstone walls. | ||
| St Richard of Chichester's Church | Three Bridges 51°07′03″N 0°10′25″W / 51.1175°N 0.1736°W / 51.1175; -0.1736 (St Richard of Chichester's Church, Three Bridges) |
Anglican | E !– | The first St Richard of Chichester's Church was built in 1952 by N.F. Cachemaille-Day and Partners. It was found to be structurally unsound, declared redundant as from 1 January 1994 and demolished. In November 1993, Crawley Borough Council granted planning permission for a new church on a nearby site, which was completed in 1995. | ||
| St Theodore of Canterbury's Church | Gossops Green 51°06′47″N 0°12′49″W / 51.1131°N 0.2136°W / 51.1131; -0.2136 (St Theodore of Canterbury's Church, Gossops Green) |
Roman Catholic | E !– | Built in 1971, the church has a brick exterior and a timber internal structure with cruck framing. It is part of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton's Crawley Parish. An earlier chapel with this dedication was registered for marriages in May 1960. | ||
| Sanatan Mandir | Ifield 51°07′48″N 0°12′39″W / 51.1300°N 0.2109°W / 51.1300; -0.2109 (Sanatan Mandir Hindu Temple, Ifield) |
Hindu | E !– | This temple replaces the Gurjar Hindu Union's building in West Green. Work at Apple Tree Farm, a 8.5-acre (3.4 ha) site on the Ifield/Langley Green border, began in May 2008. Planning permission was temporarily withdrawn, but work restarted in 2009 and continued until May 2010, when the temple opened. It was registered for marriages in October 2012. | ||
| Siri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara | West Green 51°06′49″N 0°11′38″W / 51.1136°N 0.1939°W / 51.1136; -0.1939 (Siri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara, West Green) |
Sikh | E !– | Crawley's Sikh community meet in a single-storey structure built in 1982 and registered for marriages in November 1988. Up to 250 worshippers regularly attend from a wide area: the temple serves Sikhs across a 25-mile (40 km) radius. Crawley Borough Council has granted permission for the building to be demolished and replaced with a new temple. | ||
| Sri Swarna Kamadchy Amman Temple | Three Bridges 51°06′49″N 0°09′59″W / 51.1136°N 0.1664°W / 51.1136; -0.1664 (Sri Swarna Kamadchy Amman Temple, Three Bridges) |
Hindu | E !– | This Hindu temple is based on the Stephenson Way industrial estate. Its founder was Swami Sri Suntharesa Kurukal. | ||
| Swaminarayan Manor Gatwick | Langley Green 51°08′09″N 0°12′35″W / 51.1358°N 0.2098°W / 51.1358; -0.2098 (Swaminarayan Manor, Langley Green) |
Hindu | E !– | This Swaminarayan Hindu centre opened in 2006 on Bonnetts Lane near Ifield village. It was converted from a hotel, and accommodation is still provided on site. | ||
| The Meeting Room | Povey Cross 51°09′58″N 0°10′54″W / 51.1660°N 0.1817°W / 51.1660; -0.1817 (The Meeting Room, Povey Cross) |
Plymouth Brethren | E !– | A small building was registered for worship under this name on Povey Cross Road near Horley. It is just on the West Sussex side of the Surrey county boundary. Planning permission for its construction was granted in October 1999. | ||
| Three Bridges Free Church | Three Bridges 51°07′01″N 0°09′53″W / 51.1169°N 0.1647°W / 51.1169; -0.1647 (Three Bridges Free Church, Three Bridges) |
Evangelical | E !– | This church was built in 1963 on land purchased in 1958 to replace the nearby Worth Mission Hall, which was built in 1876 and extended in 1884. It was registered for marriages in March 1963. | ||
| Three Bridges Spiritualist Church and Psychic Centre | Three Bridges 51°07′05″N 0°09′54″W / 51.1180°N 0.1650°W / 51.1180; -0.1650 (Three Bridges Spiritualist Church, Three Bridges) |
Spiritualist | E !– | When the former Worth Mission Hall was vacated by Three Bridges Free Church, who had built a new church nearby, a Spiritualist community took over the building. They re-registered it for worship (originally as New Town Psychic Centre) in 1966. |
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