St Barnabas is on the corner of Pitshanger Lane and Denison Road, close to the A40, the North Circular and the Hanger Lane Gyratory. The church is on the E2 and E9 bus routes, and our nearest tube stations are Hanger Lane (on the Central line) and Ealing Broadway (on the Central and District lines). Ealing Broadway is also a main line station.

Click here for a map showing the location of the church.

St Barnabas was designed just before the First World War. The architect was Ernest Shearman, who had already designed St Matthew, Wimbledon Park (destroyed in the Second World War) and St Silas, Kentish Town.

The foundation stone was laid on 13 June 1914: local papers described the ‘huge concourse’ of people who attended. After being blessed by the Bishop of Kensington, the stone was laid by Miss Mary Baron at the base of the south pier carrying the great chancel arch’. This is the large white stone at ground level below the statue of Our Lady.

Two years later, on 3 June 1916, St Barnabas was consecrated by the Bishop of London, the Right Revered Arthur Foley.  This was an even bigger occasion than the laying of the foundation stone, with people having to be turned away. 

The new parish officially came into being on 10 August 1917, and its first vicar, Walter Mitchell, was inducted on 3 November.