Lumen

Today was a research & feedback day for the Christenings Project. We met at Lumen. The Church was originally established by a fund set up by the Highland Society of London in 1808 to provide for Gaelic-language worship in London. Over its two hundred years of existence many famous people have been associated with the church, including Edward Irving, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Sir Robert Peel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and George and Ada Reith (parents of John Reith, the founder of the BBC, who were married there).

Lumen is just around the corner from the Foundlings Museum. Now there's a place. The Foundling Hospital was established after a long struggle by Captain Thomas Coram. Coram had been appalled by the discarded and dying children in the streets of London and spent seventeen years campaigning for the establishment of a Foundling Hospital for the "Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children".

Feedback & research was excellent too.