St Andrew
Rugby, Warwickshire
Centrally located in Rugby, with an atmosphere of peace and spirituality, we welcome visitors, pilgrims, guests and more to our church, to drop in, visit our cafe or attend one of our events.
The church started near the railway station, when Rugby was an expanding railway engineering town. St Peter’s church started out as church services in a coffee tavern, erected for the navvies on the Great Central Railway. A tin church was erected in the present location in 1901 as a daughter church of St. Andrew’s in the town centre and was dedicated on 25th May 1901.
The current building is a large brick structure built in 1908 by C Ford Whitcomb. Due to the shape of the land, alongside the former railway line, its orientation was north (altar) to south. The chancel was added in 1933 and the orientation re-ordered south (altar) to north. A memorable feature is the east window, which was dedicated in 1955. In 1984, after a nearby hall was destroyed by fire, the main church building was split into two to create a community space at the rear.