Property News · July 2, 2016

‘We are the custodians’: how a vicar and his wife made a vicarage their home


The current tenants of this east London vicarage have filled it with stylish flourishes on the smallest of budgetsSt Thomas’s church stands at one end of Clapton Terrace, an impressive row of 19th-century town houses in Stamford Hill, east London. The terrace is set back from the road and overlooks a narrow common at the brow of the hill that slopes towards a landscaped park and the river Lea. Surrounded by Dalston, Hackney and Stoke Newington, the area has seen rapid gentrification in recent years: an influx of middle-class Londoners and Europe’s largest community of ultra-orthodox Jews. “It’s a mixed community,” says the vicar of St Thomas’s, William Taylor, whose congregation is predominantly West African and Caribbean. “The sourdough loaf hasn’t quite reached us yet.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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