The Barn Church, Kew  The Barn Church, Kew, formally known as St Philip and All Saints, is the first barn church to be consecrated in England. The building, which is not listed, is on the corner of Atwood Avenue and Marksbury Avenue, in an area previously known as North Sheen and now in Kew, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It was constructed in 1929 from a 17th (or possibly 16th) century barn from Oxted in Surrey. The west end was converted in 2002 into a large parish room with a gallery above looking down the length of the building. The sanctuary was refurbished and remodelled in 1998. St Philip and All Saints is part of a joint parish with St Luke's Church, Kew, under the same vicar. It is a member of the Anglican Communion and Church of England and, locally, is part of Churches Together in Kew. The parish is almost entirely residential and many of the residents work in central London. The church has a service of worship on Sundays at 9.30 a.m. The church and adjacent hall (built in 1967) are a hub for the local neighbourhood as there are few other community facilities in the area. A number of children's activities, including a nursery school, a parent and toddler group and ballet classes, are held there. The parish publishes a magazine, "The Link". Before St Philip and All Saints was built, local Anglicans worshipped at St Peter's, a hall erected in 1910 on the corner of Marksbury Avenue and Chilton Road. The hall was demolished in the 1990s and a block of sheltered housing (St Philip’s Court) now stands on the site. The new church was constructed from timbers taken from a barn (and also the adjoining stables) which stood at Stonehall Farm, Hurst Green, Oxted, Surrey. The original barn was an "L"-shaped building dating from the 17th or possibly the 16th century. Some of the beams may have been originally ships' timbers. In 1926 the owners, local historian Uvedale Lambert and his wife Cecily (née Hoare) of South Park Farm, Bletchingley, in conjunction with members of the Hoare family, who gave generous financial assistance, offered the barn as one of the 25 new churches wanted in the Diocese of Southwark. It was decided to move the barn to North Sheen (now incorporated into Kew), where the generosity of Hugh Leyborne Popham had already provided a site.