About HTB

History

Church Plants and Partnerships

Since 1985, HTB has planted teams of 10 to 200 people into a wide variety of churches throughout London and overseas. Historically significant and beautiful Anglican churches – often facing closure – have been restored and are now homes to growing, worshipping communities that have a significant impact within their local areas.

The Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, has encouraged church planting throughout the diocese, as did his predecessor, David Hope. Bishop Chartres described Sandy Millar (Vicar at HTB from 1985–2005), under whose leadership much of the church planting took place, as a ‘professor of church planting’. Sandy Millar was appointed Assistant Bishop in London in 2006. During the years of rapid planting and growth, the HTB congregation also continued to grow, and the church now has a Sunday congregation of around 4,500 people.

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Past Vicars

1829–1840
Joseph Holden Pott
(Vicar of St Mary Abbott, the mother church)
1829–1835
Percival Frye, M.A.
(Curate in Charge)
1835–1840
Robert Samuel Battiscombe, M.A.
(Curate in Charge)
1840–1870
William Joseph Irons, M.A., D.D.
1870–1872
Thomas Fraser Stooks
1872–1877
Arthur Brook, M.A.
1877–1899
William Covington, M.A., F.R.G.S.
Prebendary of St Paul’s Cathedral
1899–1931
Alfred William Gough, M.A.
Prebendary of St Paul’s Cathedral
1931–1938
William Marshall Selwyn, M.A.
1938–1948
Bryan Stuart Westmacott Green, B.D.
1949–1969
Patrick Nevile Gilliat, M.A.
Prebendary of St Paul’s Cathedral
1969–1975
Raymond John Walton Morris, O.B.E., M.A.
1975–1980
Raymond Hilton Turvey, M.A.
1980–1985
John Theodore Cameron Buckle Collins M.A.
Prebendary of St Paul’s Cathedral
1985–2005
John Alexander Kirkpatrick Millar, M.A. (Cantab), Dip. Theo. (Dunelm)
Prebendary of St Paul’s Cathedral
2005–Present
Nicky Gumbel