St Matthias – London’s only interregnum church

On a side street in Poplar, East London, is an old church that’s now used as a playschool — and is London’s only church that was built during the Interregnum, the time England was a republic.England and Wales, and later Scotland and Ireland, were governed as a republic following the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 until the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Very few churches were built during this period for unrelated reasons, but one of the few was built in Lond