Prynne Close

George Rundle Prynne was educated at Devonport then Cambridge and within the church was a follower of the Oxford movement. In 1848 he was appointed vicar of the newly established parish of St. Peter's in the converted chapel on Eldad Hill.

Over the course of the next half-century Prynne was to prove an enormous influence in the area and he oversaw the growth of St. Peter's literally and spiritually. His was the first church in England to restore and continue daily communion and in addition to his published sermons he also wrote a number of hymns, including "Jesu Meek and Gentle".

All told he served at St. Peter's for fifty-five years and died while still incumbent in 1903. Together with Lydia Sellon, with whom he did much valuable work, he is now remembered in the naming of one of the streets built in the 1980s on part of the old railway site off Western Approach.