Rochester Square Spiritualist Temple

• IN August 2017 an application was lodged at Camden Council to demolish the Rochester Square Spiritualist Temple.

The planning application wasn’t well advertised but hundreds of people across the world signed petitions to save it from demolition.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle laid a foundation stone, as did others, but thrice-knighted, Conan Doyle gave £500 of the £600 building costs to this iconic Temple built to honour the Temple of Solomon on Temple Mount.

It has a remarkable timber roof, stained glass and murals. The building could be renovated as a tribute to Conan Doyle and kept as a public amenity.

On December 22, 2017, a new application was lodged at Camden. People were not notified.

All the many people who had campaigned in the summer were not told that, if this planning application is passed, the building will be converted into five flats with a new basement and a two-storey building at the back of the property.

Let’s keep the building as a local amenity.

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