Until the nineteenth century the village of Peckham was part of the parish of St Giles, Camberwell. It had no parish church of its own. The first place of worship was a non-conformist meeting house, possibly as early as 1657.<\/p>\n
These pages show how the growth and development of Peckham and Nunhead is reflected in the establishment and change of use of the many places of worship.<\/p>\n
The places of worship on each page are in approximate chronological order. Many are now used by different congregations from those who originally built them – use the Search<\/strong> box to help find the one you want.<\/p>\n Until the nineteenth century the village of Peckham was part of the parish of St Giles, Camberwell. It had no parish church of its own. The first place of worship was a non-conformist meeting house, possibly as early as 1657. These pages show how the growth and development of Peckham and Nunhead is reflected in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":224,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2776,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514\/revisions\/2776"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Church of England<\/a><\/h5>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Baptist<\/a><\/h5>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Brethren churches<\/a><\/h5>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Congregational<\/a><\/h5>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Friends Meeting Houses<\/a><\/h5>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Independent and other churches<\/a><\/h5>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Methodist<\/a><\/h5>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Roman Catholic<\/a><\/h5>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Salvation Army<\/a><\/h5>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Unitarian<\/a><\/h5>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Twenty first century congregations<\/a><\/h5>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Other places of worship<\/a><\/h5>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Cemeteries<\/a><\/h5>\n
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