In deepest Camden Town

HOLY CROSS CHURCH was consecrated on 1st November 1888. It came to be built following the assassination in 1874 of Commodore James Goodenough on the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. The Goodenough family negotiated for a new church to be dedicated in his memory and to The Holy Cross. The Commodore had been speared to death on the Island of Santa Cruz; Holy Cross Island. This dedication is the only one of its kind in the Church in London. Behind the font you can see a small brass plaque which commemorates these things. The church bell which hangs at the west end of the exterior of the church is the bell from the Commodore's ship, 'The Pearl', which is rung to call people to prayer and to the Parish Mass.

This quite rundown looking building is on my 2 minute walk route from Kings X to the office.