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[[Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone]], Westminster, London is a former Anglican church, built in 1828 by Sir [[John Soane]]. By the 1930s, it had fallen into disuse and in 1936 was used by the newly founded Penguin Books company to store books. A children's slide was used to deliver books from the street into the large crypt. In 1937, Penguin moved out to [[Harmondsworth]], and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge moved in. It was their headquarters until 2004, when it moved to [[Diocese of London|London Diocesan House]] in Causton Street, Pimlico. The bookshop moved to Tufton Street, Westminster, in 2003.
On 1 November 2006, St Stephen the Great Charitable Trust (SSG) took over the bookshops but continued to trade under the SPCK name, under licence from SPCK. That licence was withdrawn in October 2007. However, some shops continued trading as SPCK Bookshops without licence until the SSG operation was closed down in 2009.{{cn|date=October 2023}} In 2006 Alec Gilmore described what he called the "narrowing" of the SPCK's vision.<ref>Alec Gilmore, [https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2006/22-december/comment/before-they-narrowed-the-vision "Before they narrowed the vision"], ''[[Church Times]]'', 19 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.</ref>
In 2019 the SPCK's "specialist medical, mental health and self-help imprint", The Sheldon Press, was acquired by Hachette UK.<ref>Katharine Cowdrey, [https://www.thebookseller.com/news/spcks-sheldon-press-join-john-murray-learning-923766 "Hachette acquires SPCK's Sheldon Press"], ''[[The Bookseller]]'', 3 January 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2023.</ref>
=== SPCK's former book series ===
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