Saint Faith's Directory
Latest update: November 26th, 2009 (added St Faith's Brisbane)

This list records all the churches and chapels worldwide of whuch we are aware, functioning or closed, dedicated wholly or in part to our patron Saint Faith.

Those named in red below are described, illustrated or referred to on our 'Saint Elsewhere' page, or where indicated alongside have websites to visit. The 'Saint Elsewhere' page also records all changes to the Saint Faith's list, as well as other additions, revisions and updates.

To find out what we know about Saint Faith herself, with pictures of paintings and statues in various locations worldwide, click here.

The English Churches of Saint Faith

St Faith and St Laurence, Harborne, Birmingham (visit their website)
St Faith, Maidstone, Canterbury
St Faith’s Mission Church, Thanington, Canterbury
All Saints and St Faith, Childerditch, Chelmsford
St Faith, Preston Brook, Chester
St Faith’s Mission Church, Belper Lane End, Derby (redundant and for sale September 2007)
St Faith, Farmcote, Gloucester
St Faith, Bacton, Hereford
St Faith, Dorstone, Hereford
St Faith, Welsh Newton Common, Hereford
St Faith, Dunswell, Hull  (visit their website)
St Faith, Kelstern, Lincoln
St Faith, Lincoln
St Faith, Wilsthorpe, Lincoln
St Faith, Great Crosby, Liverpool
St Faith, Brentford, London (visit their website)
St Faith, Maidstone, Canterbury
St Faith, Gaywood, Norwich (joint Anglican/Methodist LEP)
St Mary and St Andrew, Horsham St Faith, Norwich
St Faith, Little Witchingham, Norfolk
St Faith, Newton Longville, Oxford
St Faith, Shellingford, Oxford
St Faith, Kilsby, Peterborough
St Faith, Alverstoke, Portsmouth (visit their website)
St Faith, Cowes, Portsmouth (visit their website)
St Faith, Havant, Portsmouth (visit their website)
St Faith, Lee-on-the-Solent, Portsmouth (visit their website)
St Faith, Landport, Portsea, Portsmouth (visit their website)
    (Two sisters of Community of Sacred Passion, at Saint Faith's House, Fyning St, Landport, Portsmouth
St Faith, North Dulwich, Southwark
St Faith, Wandsworth, Southwark
St Faith, Hexton, St Albans (visit their website)
St Faith, Hitchin, St Albans
St Faith, Kelshall, St Albans
St Nicholas and St Faith, Saltash, Truro
St Cross Hospital with St Faith, Winchester
St Faith, Berrow, Worcester
St Faith, Overbury, Worcester
St Faith’s Mission Church, Dunswell, York

St Faith and All Saints, a.k.a. St Peter, Little Wittenham, Berks (provisionally added, June 2009)

Others to be checked out...
St Faith's Methodist Church, Norwich (no traces yet found)
St Faith's, Sherington, Newport Pagnell (possibly confused with Newton-Longville, which has associations with Newport Pagnell?)

Other British Dedications to Saint Faith

St Faith's Chapel, Westminster Abbey (visit theAbbey website)
    (Lord Tennyson, who died on St Faith's Day 1892 lies there, as do Charles Dickens, Edmuind Spenser and Geoffrey Chaucer and a C13 wall painting of St Faith)
St Faith's Chapel, St Paul's Cathedral Crypt
St Faith's Chapel, Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire
St Faith's Mission Church, Llanishen, Cardiff
    (the only known dedication in the Church in Wales)
Until its demolition in 1910, there was a St Faith's Mission Church in the parish of St Bride, Hyndlaw, Glasgow
    (the only known dedication in the Scottish Episcopal Church).
The chapel of the Stanley Royd Hosital, Wakefield, now abandoned.
St Faith's house church, temporarily situated in Windmill Road, Adeyfield, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
St Faith's, Leven, East Yorkshire (demolished in 1844)

Saint Faith in the rest of the world

St Faith's, Strathpine, North Brisbane, Australia (visit their website)
The Abbey and Community of Saint Faith, Conques, France
St Faith, Ohinemutu, Rotarua, New Zealand
St Faith, Burwood, Melbourne, Australia
St Faith, Montmorency, Melbourne, Australia (thought to have closed on June 3rd, 2007 - see article)
St Faith's, Narrabeen, Australia (visit their website)
St Faith, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
St Faith, Kuching, Borneo
St Faith's Episcopal Church and School, Miama, Florida, USA (visit their website)
St Faith's Episcopal Church, Havertown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
St Faith's Pro-Cathedral, Awka Diocese, Nigeria

St Faith's House, Swan River, Brandon, Canada (no longer so named)

Miscellaneous!

See the 'Saint Elsewhere' features to read about a ferry, a garage, money tokens, a crematorium and a hymn tune.....

Are there any more St Faith's out there that we may have missed? Anything we have got wrong?
We would be delighted to receive details of any of the churches on our list - or indeed any to add to it!

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