Danes Church
Names
- Danes Church
- Danish Chapel
Street/Area/District
- Wellclose Square
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Dane's Church
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Dane's Church
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Danes Church
Descriptions
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Danish chapel, Well close square.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Danish-Church, Wellcose-Square, the building which occupies the centre of the square.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Danish-Church, Wellclose-square, is the building which occupies the centre of the square. It was erected in 1746, and is a commodious and handsome structure appropriated to the use of the Danes, who reside in this neighbourhood.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Danish Church, Wellclose Square, built in 1696, by Caius Gabriel Gibber, the sculptor, at the expense of Christian V., King of Denmark, for the use of his subjects, merchants and seamen, accustomed to visit the port of London. Within the church was a tablet to the wife of Caius Gabriel Gibber (Jane Colley), the mother of Colley Gibber. The father and son were both interred in the vaults of this church. Opposite the pulpit was the "Royal Pew," in which Christian VII., King of Denmark, sat, when on a visit to this country in 1768. The church was opened as the British and Foreign Sailors' Church in 1845. It was taken down in 1869, and the site is now occupied by a church for seamen. [See Well close Square.]