\nWebsite:\u00a0stgilescamberwell.org<\/a>
\nChurch history:\u00a0St Giles, Camberwell<\/a><\/p>\n
- \n
- Built:\u00a0\u00a0Medi\u00e6val parish church, rebuilt in 14th century<\/li>\n
- . \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1842-44\u00a0Architect: Scott & Moffatt<\/li>\n
- Parish: Current<\/li>\n
- The \u2018mother\u2019 parish church for Peckham<\/li>\n
- Population:\u00a021,924 (1903)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/St-Giles-Camberwell-c.1825-300x240.jpg\")
St Giles, Camberwell c. 1825<\/p><\/div>\n
The parish church of\u00a0 ST GILES is a large building of stone in the style of the 14th century, erected in 1844 and designed by Sir Gilbert Scott after the old church had been burnt down. It has a chancel of three bays, central tower with an octagonal stone spire, transepts, nave of five bays, with a clerestory, low aisles and north and south porches. The roofs are covered with lead. The churchyard is large and contains many graves to the south and west of the church, but none to the north between the church and the road.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Victoria County History, History of the County of\u00a0 Surrey: Volume 4<\/em>\u00a0 H.E. Malden (editor), 1912<\/p>\n
Camden Church<\/h5>\n
Peckham Road, Camberwell<\/p>\n
- \n
- Built: \u00a01796-8, 1814\/1854<\/li>\n
- Architect: George Gwilt (1796) Gilbert Scott (1854)<\/li>\n
- Consecrated:\u00a0November 1844<\/li>\n
- Parish: \u00a01844-????<\/li>\n
- Population:\u00a07,942 (1903)<\/li>\n
- Church demolished.\u00a0The building was within the present parish of Camberwell, St Giles with St Matthew.<\/li>\n
- The church itself was in what is Camberwell today (SE5).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Camden-Church-300x189.jpg\")
Camden Church, early 20C<\/p><\/div>\n
The first church opened in 1797 when seceders from St Giles Camberwell who found the doctrines of the new Vicar not altogether to their taste decided to create their own evangelical chapel. The Nonconformist chapel opened under proprietary management in the \u2018Countess of Huntingdon\u2019s Connexion\u2019. It became an Anglican chapel of ease in 1829,\u00a0 was eventually consecrated as a parish church in 1844. It was substantially enlarged in 1854<\/p>\n
The church . . . is built of stock brick with stone dressings in the Renaissance classic style of the period; it has a chancel and nave with short transepts. The west front towards the road contains the three principal entrances and has a horizontal parapet. Camden chapel, built in 1795, and subsequently enlarged, is a handsome edifice of brick, with a campanile turret.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Victoria County History, History of the County of\u00a0 Surrey: Volume 4\u00a0<\/em> H.E. Malden (editor), 1912<\/p>\n
The church hall was destroyed by bombing in 1940 and the church itself badly damaged in 1940 and 1941. However, vestry and crypt were made good and services continued amidst the ruined fabric until 1952. Baptisms and marriages took place there until 1951. The church was closed in spring 1952 and demolished but the parish was not formally abolished until 1961 when it was divided between St Luke and St Giles.
\nMission churches and halls<\/strong>
\nSumner Road and Melon Ground<\/p>\nSt Chrysostom<\/h5>\n
Peckham Hill St<\/p>\n
- \n
- Built: 1813-14\u00a0 Architect unknown<\/li>\n
- Consecrated: 1814<\/li>\n
- No. of seats: 800 (1894)<\/li>\n
- Parish:\u00a0 1885-1960<\/li>\n
- Population: 7419 (1903)<\/li>\n
- Church demolished 1963. The building was within the present parish of St John with St Andrew.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/St-Chrysostom-Church-300x254.jpg\")
from ‘Studies in Street Architecture’ by Francis Dodds\u00a0(c. 1914)<\/p><\/div>\n
St Chrysostom\u2019s church was first known as Peckham Chapel. It was originally a Proprietary Church (41 proprietors owned the \u00a3100 shares) and opened for divine service by Bishop\u2019s Licence. As ownership of shares reduced to a handful of people, fund-raising enabled the purchase and formation into a district church. In 1865 it was renamed St Chrysostom after St John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople (347-407). His nickname Chrysostom meant \u201cgolden-mouthed”. The parish was not created until 1885.<\/p>\n
The church . . . is a barn-like structure of stock brick and cement of the quasi-Gothic of about 1830\u201340. The chancel and nave are of equal width (the latter having galleries) lighted by wide pointed single lights and having an embattled parapet. The west front, which is of cement, faces the road, contains three entrances and is surmounted by a bell turret with an octagonal lantern.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Victoria County History, History of the County of\u00a0 Surrey: Volume 4\u00a0<\/em> H.E. Malden (editor), 1912<\/p>\n
The church survived the war, though with some damage. From 1960-1978\u00a0 it was part of the united parish of St Chrysostom and St Jude. In 1962 the building was declared unsafe due to dry rot.\u00a0 Services were held in the Peckham Settlement for three years while fund-raising and planning were in progress, but after several failed restoration attempts it was finally decided that the site of the bombed St Jude would be more suitable for a new church, and the church was demolished in 1963.
\nMission churches and halls<\/strong>
\nSt Chrysostom\u2019s Hall, Goldsmith Road<\/p>\nSt George<\/h5>\n
Trinity College Centre, Coleman Road, Camberwell, SE15 6EF
\nWebsite: http:\/\/trinitycollegechapel.com\/camberwell\/<\/a>
\nChurch history:\u00a0Trinity in Camberwell<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- Built:\u00a01822\u201324 \u00a0Architect: Francis Octavius Bedford\u00a0Cost: \u00a317,000<\/li>\n
- Consecrated:\u00a01824<\/li>\n
- No. of seats:\u00a01500 (1894)<\/li>\n
- Rebuilt:\u00a01983 \u00a0Architect: Millard Wrighton & Wynn \u00a0on new site<\/li>\n
- Parish:\u00a01825\u2013current.\u00a0\u00a0Most of this is SE5.<\/li>\n
- Population:\u00a016,115 (1903)<\/li>\n
- Original building converted to flats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/St-Georges-Church-1824-300x231.jpg\")
St George’s Church, c. 1850s<\/p><\/div>\n
In August 1820 the members of Camberwell Vestry agreed that a new church \u201cto hold 2000 persons, one-third to be free sittings\u201d was required in the district to accommodate the growing population. St George\u2019s Church was built in Wells Street among green fields on the south bank of the Surrey Canal.<\/p>\n
The church . . . consists of a small apsidal chancel with a large nave at the west of which is a hexastyle Doric portico. Above this is a square tower in three stages, the first of which is solid, whilst the second and third open with Doric and Ionic columns and entablatures. The body of the church and the apse are of stock brick, the portico and tower being of stone. Internally and externally the nave is divided into bays by pilasters of Greek detail. The apse, which is of Roman Doric design, is a much more recent addition. There is a fair-sized churchyard, now used as a small park.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Victoria County History, History of the County of\u00a0 Surrey: Volume 4<\/em>\u00a0 H.E. Malden (editor), 1912<\/p>\n
The housing around the church was badly bombed during the war and the parish became a building site. The\u00a0building closed in 1970, and was then gutted by fire and vandalism. It was declared redundant in November 1972 and an order was given for banns and marriages to be held at St Luke. The building was sold to the Celestial Church of Christ in 1976 and later converted to flats. The churchyard was given to the GLC.
\nIn 1982-83 the new church centre was built. Trinity College Centre is part of the Charity ‘Trinity in Camberwell’ which has for the past 120 years been the social outreach of Trinity College Cambridge. It incorporates the present church, and the old church now once more faces green fields \u2013 this time of Burgess Park.
\nMission churches and halls<\/strong>
\nTrinity College Mission – Mission from Cambridge College<\/p>\nChrist Church<\/h5>\n
676, Old Kent Rd, SE15 1JF
\nWebsite: www.christchurchpeckham.info<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- Built: 1813-14\u00a0 Architect unknown<\/li>\n
- Consecrated: 1814<\/li>\n
- No. of seats: 800 (1894)<\/li>\n
- Parish: 1885-1960<\/li>\n
- Population: 7419 (1903)<\/li>\n
- Church demolished 1963.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Christ Church was built on the north side of the Old Kent Road in 1838, but the rapid growth of the adjacent South Metropolitan Gas Works, opened in 1833,\u00a0 forced a move. The new church opened on the opposite side of the road in\u00a0 1868.<\/p>\n
The church was built about 1840 of brick with stone dressings in the style of the end of the 13th century and consists of a chancel, nave, south transept and aisle, and north baptistery and a south-east tower.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Victoria County History, History of the County of\u00a0 Surrey: Volume 4<\/em>\u00a0 H.E. Malden (editor), 1912
\nThough damaged by bombing, it survived the war and is still in use.
\nMission churches and halls<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ilderton-Road-2010-300x200.jpg\")
Corpus Christi Mission, Ilderton Road<\/p><\/div>\n
Corpus Christi College Cambridge Mission, on Road, was built in 1887. After a spell as a photocopier suppliers, it has now been sold to another Christian denomination.<\/p>\n
Christ Church Mission, Lower Park Road<\/p>\n
St Mary Magdalene<\/h5>\n
17, St Mary\u2019s Rd, SE15 2EA
\nWebsite:\u00a0www.stmaryspeckham.co.uk<\/a>
\nChurch history: St Mary Magdalene<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- Built:\u00a01839-41\u00a0\u00a0 Architect: R P Browne<\/li>\n
- Consecrated:\u00a07 May 1841<\/li>\n
- No. of seats:\u00a01100 (1894)<\/li>\n
- Rebuilt:\u00a01961\u201362\u00a0\u00a0 Architect: Robert Potter<\/li>\n
- Consecrated:\u00a03 November 1962<\/li>\n
- Parish: \u00a01842-current<\/li>\n
- Population:\u00a012789 (1903)<\/li>\n
- St Mary’s Church c. 1906<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/St-Marys-Church-300x195.jpg\")
St Mary Magdalene, c. 1906<\/p><\/div>\n
St Mary\u2019s Church was built on an oval plot of ground formerly called the \u201cDuck\u2019s Nest\u201d. The surrounding fields were\u00a0 market gardens before being taken for house building.<\/p>\n
The church . . . was built about 1840 of stock brick in the style of the end of the 12th century. It has a shallow chancel with vestries, &c., a wide nave with galleries and an engaged west tower with an octagonal brick spire and a clock.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Victoria County History, History of the County of\u00a0 Surrey: Volume 4<\/em>\u00a0 H.E. Malden (editor), 1912<\/p>\n
The church was destroyed by a land-mine on 21 September 1940. The new church, an open-plan cruciform design, was opened in 1962.
\nMission churches<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Hooper-Hall-Consort-Road-2015-300x225.jpg\")
Hooper Hall, Consort Road<\/p><\/div>\n
St Paul\u2019s Church and Hooper Hall, Consort Road opened in January 1907.
\nSt Mary\u2019s Hall, St Mary\u2019s Road and St Mary Magdalene\u2019s Schools<\/p>\nSt John the Evangelist<\/h5>\n
East Dulwich Road, SE22 9AT
\nWebsite:\u00a0www.stjohnseastdulwich.org<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- Built:\u00a0\u00a01863-65 \u00a0Architect: Charles Bailey\u00a0\u00a0Cost: \u00a38000<\/li>\n
- Consecrated:\u00a016 May 1865<\/li>\n
- No. of seats:\u00a0900 (1865)<\/li>\n
- Restored:\u00a01951 \u00a0Architect J B S Comper<\/li>\n
- Parish: \u00a01865-current\u00a0The church building is in East Dulwich (SE22) but part of the parish is in Peckham.<\/li>\n
- Population:\u00a021,926 (1903)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
St John\u2019s Church on Goose Green was erected in 1865 to replace the small building known as East Dulwich Chapel (built 1826). The parish was taken out of St Giles.<\/p>\n
The church, which stands on Goose Green, is built of rubble and Bath stone in the style of the 13th century. It has a chancel with a round apse and vaulted ceiling, nave with a clerestory lighted by dormer windows, narrow north and south aisles of five bays, porches, &c., and a south-east transeptal tower containing a side chapel with a gallery over, and crowned by an octagonal tiled spire. The roofs are slated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Victoria County History, History of the County of\u00a0 Surrey: Volume 4<\/em>\u00a0 H.E. Malden (editor), 1912<\/p>\n
The church was damaged by bombing in 1940 and re-opened after restoration in 1951.
\nMission churches and halls<\/strong>
\nSt Andrew\u2019s Mission Church, Waghorn St, was built in 1903 to replace a temporary iron church on the site. It fell out of use in 1932 and was sold in 1948 to fund the restoration. It is now Francis Bacon Lodge.<\/p>\n\u00a0St Andrew<\/h5>\n
Glengall Road, SE15 6RH<\/p>\n
- \n
- Built:\u00a01865\u00a0\u00a0 Architect E Bassett Keeling\u00a0\u00a0 Cost: \u00a36000<\/li>\n
- Consecrated:\u00a023 October 1865<\/li>\n
- No. of seats:\u00a0870 (1894)<\/li>\n
- Parish: \u00a01866\u20131956.\u00a0The building was within the present parish of St John with St Andrew.<\/li>\n
- Population:\u00a07,384 (1903)<\/li>\n
- Church building sold to another Christian denomination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
St Andrew\u2019s church was erected mainly through the efforts of the then incumbent of Camden Chapel and other local residents. The parish was taken from Camden Chapel and Christ Church. The church was built on the site of a former apple orchard and consecrated in October 1865. St Andrew\u2019s Hall opened in the 1890s.<\/p>\n
The church consists of a chancel, nave, narthex and tower. It is built of stone and is designed in the style of the late 13th century. The tower is surmounted by a shingled spire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Victoria County History, History of the County of\u00a0 Surrey: Volume 4<\/em>\u00a0 H.E. Malden (editor), 1912<\/p>\n
It was severely damaged in the 1940-1 blitz. Services were held in the church hall post-war, and the church re-opened after restoration in 1954. In 1956 the parish was united with All Saints, North Peckham. By 1978 the church was isolated in the middle of a vast building site and, recognising that the parish was no longer independently viable, the church was declared redundant in March 1978 and the parish united with St John, Peckham. The church was sold to the Celestial Church of Christ.
\nMission churches and halls<\/strong>
\nSt Andrew\u2019s Church Hall is opposite<\/p>\nSt Jude<\/h5>\n
Springhall Street\/Meeting House Lane<\/p>\n
- \n
- Built:\u00a01865 temporary church<\/li>\n
- 1875-6\u00a0Architect: Blomfield\u00a0Cost: \u00a3700 (the temporary church)<\/li>\n
- Consecrated:\u00a01879<\/li>\n
- No. of seats:\u00a0800 (1894)<\/li>\n
- Parish:\u00a01880-1960<\/li>\n
- Population:\u00a09,860 (1903)<\/li>\n
- Church demolished.\u00a0The building was within the present parish of St John with St Andrew<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/St-Judes-Church-300x196.jpg\")
St Jude’s Church, c. 1905<\/p><\/div>\n
A temporary iron church was built in Asylum Road in 1865 to evangelise the gangs of railway workers building Queen\u2019s Road station. In 1879 the new church of St Jude was completed in Meeting House Lane.<\/p>\n
The church is built of stock and red brick and stone in the style of the 12th century. It has a chancel with organ chamber, south chapel, nave with a clerestory, aisles with arcades of four round-arched bays and north-west and south-west porches; a bell-cote above the west gable contains two bells. The aisle windows have semi-dormer gable heads. The roofs are covered with slates. The chancel arch is spanned by a carved oak screen, above which is a rood with figures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Victoria County History, History of the County of\u00a0 Surrey: Volume 4<\/em>\u00a0 H.E. Malden (editor), 1912<\/p>\n
The church was bombed in October 1940; thereafter marriages were solemnized at St Chrysostom’s Church, Hill Street, or in St Jude’s church hall. St Jude’s parish was united with that of St Chrysostom, as St Chrysostom and St Jude, in 1960, and St Chrysostom’s church became the parish church of the united parish.
\nMission churches and halls<\/strong>
\nSt Jude\u2019s Parochial Hall, Meeting House Lane<\/p>\nAll Saints, Blenheim Grove<\/h5>\n
Blenheim Grove, SE15 4QS
\nWebsite:\u00a0http:\/\/allsaintspeckham.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- Built: 1870-72 Architect: H E Coe Cost: \u00a36,480 (church and school)<\/li>\n
- Consecrated: 24 July 1872<\/li>\n
- No. of seats: 800 (1894)<\/li>\n
- Parish: 1872-current<\/li>\n
- Population: 5,289 (1903)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/All-Saints-Blenheim-Grove-c.1905-300x195.jpg\")
All Saints Church c.1905<\/p><\/div>\n
The school-church was opened in 1866. The foundation-stone of the present church was laid in 1870, and the new building consecrated in July 1872. All Saint\u2019s Church is in the centre of Peckham, right next to the \u2018new\u2019 Peckham Rye station which had opened only seven years earlier.<\/p>\n
The church was built about 1870 of rag and Bath stone in the style of the 13th century. It consists of a chancel with a round apse, nave with semi-dormer clerestory windows, vestries, &c., north and south aisles and the stump of a north-west porch tower with one bell. The roofs are tiled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Victoria County History, History of the County of\u00a0 Surrey: Volume 4<\/em>\u00a0 H.E. Malden (editor), 1912<\/p>\n
Both parish and church survived the war, and are still in use.
\nMission churches and halls<\/strong>
\nAll Saints, Victoria Place, High Street<\/p>\nSt Antholin<\/h5>\n
Nunhead Lane, SE15 3TU<\/p>\n
- \n
- Built: \u00a01878\u00a0\u00a0 Architect: Ewan Christian<\/li>\n
- Consecrated:\u00a011 May 1878<\/li>\n
- No. of seats:\u00a01000 (1894)<\/li>\n
- Restored:\u00a01957\u00a0Architect: Lawrence King<\/li>\n
- Consecrated:\u00a012 October 1957 (as \u201cSt Antony\u201d)<\/li>\n
- Parish: \u00a01878-2001\u00a0United\u00a0 to become St Antony with St Silas, Nunhead<\/li>\n
- Population:\u00a019,126 (1903)<\/li>\n
- Church building sold to another Christian denomination (Lighthouse Cathedral)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Nunhead, previously part of the parish of St Mary Magdalene, was designated a Mission District with a priest-in-charge in 1865. A room on Nunhead Green was used until the temporary corrugated iron church of St Michael was built in Linden Grove. It achieved the status of a separate parish in 1878, and the new church was built 1877-8 using the proceeds from the sale of St Antholin\u2019s Church, Watling St.<\/p>\n
The church is a large rectangular structure of red brick, built in 1877, in the style of the first part of the 13th century. It has a nave and chancel of equal width, the nave having a clerestory with lancet windows, north and south aisles, transepts, porches, &c. The middle roof is gabled and covered with slates, the aisles have lean-to roofs. The oak reredos designed by Sir Christopher Wren and a bell were brought from St Antholin’s, Watling Street.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Victoria County History, History of the County of\u00a0 Surrey: Volume 4<\/em>\u00a0 H.E. Malden (editor), 1912<\/p>\n
The interior was restored in 1912 and 1938, only to be gutted by firebombs in 1943. The final restoration was completed in 1957 and the church re-dedicated to \u201cSt Anthony\u201d. In February 2001 it was declared redundant, and has since been sold.
\nMission churches and halls<\/strong>
\nSt Michael, Nunhead (see above)<\/p>\nSt Luke<\/h5>\n
Pentridge Street\/Chandler Way, North Peckham SE15 6ED
\nWebsite:\u00a0http:\/\/stlukespeckham.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- Built:\u00a01873-74<\/li>\n
- . \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 1876-77\u00a0Architect: J E K Cutts<\/li>\n
- Consecrated:\u00a013 October 1877<\/li>\n
- No. of seats:\u00a0700 (1894)<\/li>\n
- Rebuilt: \u00a01953-4 Architects: A C Martin; and Milner & Graze<\/li>\n
- Parish: \u00a01878 \u2013 current<\/li>\n
- Population:\u00a010,214 (1903)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
During the 1860-70s the Rosemary Branch estate was built on the fields of North Peckham and the Rosemary Branch Pleasure Gardens.\u00a0 A temporary church, a daughter church in the parish of St George, was built in 1874 to serve the new congregation. It held only 250, however, and was soon obviously too small. The new St Luke\u2019s Church opened in 1877.<\/p>\n
The church, which is situated in Rosemary Road, consists of a chancel and nave with aisles in one range and a south-west porch. It is of the simplest design and is built of stock bricks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Victoria County History, History of the County of\u00a0 Surrey: Volume 4<\/em>\u00a0 H.E. Malden (editor), 1912<\/p>\n
The church was destroyed by bombing in the Second World War. It was rebuilt in brick \u201cneo-Byzantine\u201d style in 1953.<\/p>\n
St Saviour (Copleston Centre)<\/h5>\n
Copleston Centre, Copleston Road, SE15 4AN
\nWebsite:\u00a0www.coplestoncentre.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- Built:\u00a01880-81\u00a0Architect: Weekes & Hughes<\/li>\n
- Consecrated:\u00a022 February 1881<\/li>\n
- No. of seats:\u00a0850 (1894)<\/li>\n
- Remodelled:\u00a01978-79 by Thomas Ford & Partners<\/li>\n
- Parish: \u00a01881-current<\/li>\n
- Population:\u00a05147 (1903)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
St Saviour\u2019s Church was built in 1881, with the parish taken out of St John\u2019s, East Dulwich.<\/p>\n
The church . . . was built about 1880 of white bricks with stone dressings in the style of the 14th century. It consists of a chancel, nave with a clerestory lighted by dormer windows, low aisles of six bays with round pillars and pointed arches, north organ chamber and a south chapel. The entrance to the chancel has an oak screen and rood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Victoria County History, History of the County of\u00a0 Surrey: Volume 4<\/em>\u00a0 H.E. Malden (editor), 1912<\/p>\n
In the late 1970s, the congregation of St Saviour\u2019s and Hanover United Reformed Church, Peckham, jointly planned the remodelling of the building which was redeveloped as a community centre. The Copleston Centre Church, a Local Ecumenical Partnership, was created in 1981.
\nMission churches and halls<\/strong>
\nSt Saviour\u2019s Mission, Choumert Road<\/p>\n\u00a0St Mark<\/h5>\n
Harders Road<\/p>\n
- \n
- Built:\u00a01884-5\u00a0\u00a0 Architect unknown<\/li>\n
- Consecrated:\u00a025 March 1884<\/li>\n
- No. of seats:\u00a0804 (1894)<\/li>\n
- Parish: \u00a01884-1960<\/li>\n
- Population: \u00a08,530 (1903)<\/li>\n
- Church demolished 1959.\u00a0The building was within the present parish of St Mary, Magdalene.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
St Mark\u2019s Church began as a mission church for St Mary Magdalene, and the first services were held in St Mary\u2019s National Schools. A permanent church was consecrated in 1885, with the parish taken out of St Mary\u2019s.<\/p>\n
The church . . . is a building of red brick and stone in the style of the 13th century erected in 1883; it has a continuous chancel and nave, the former having an arch on either side opening into an organ chamber and a vestry, nave and low aisles, with arcades of three wide bays; a bell hangs in a bell-cote above the west gable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Victoria County History, History of the County of\u00a0 Surrey: Volume 4<\/em>\u00a0 H.E. Malden (editor), 1912<\/p>\n
In 1944 the church was badly damaged by a flying bomb. It was demolished in 1959 and the parish transferred to St Chrysostom and St Jude the following year.<\/p>\n
All Saints, North Peckham\u00a0(\u201cThe Moving Church\u201d)<\/h5>\n
Davey St, off Sumner Road<\/p>\n
- \n
- Built:\u00a01893-94\u00a0\u00a0 Architect Walter Planck<\/li>\n
- Consecrated:\u00a01894<\/li>\n
- No. of seats:\u00a0800 (1894)<\/li>\n
- Parish: \u00a01892\u20131956<\/li>\n
- Population:\u00a05049 (1903)<\/li>\n
- Church demolished and rebuilt in Biggin Hill.\u00a0 The building was within the present parish of St John with St Andrew<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The parish was created in 1892 from part of the parishes of St George Camberwell, St Luke Peckham and Camden Chapel. The foundation stone of All Saint\u2019s Church was laid on 1 November 1894.<\/p>\n
The church consists of a chancel with north organ chamber and vestry and south chapel, a nave with north and south aisles, a north porch and a west baptistery. The whole church is well and freely designed in late 13th-century style, and is built of red brick and stone with tile roofs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Victoria County History, History of the County of\u00a0 Surrey: Volume 4<\/em>\u00a0 H.E. Malden (editor), 1912
\nThe church was undamaged by war but abandoned by its clergy and its functions were taken over by the Vicar of St Andrew. It became derelict, and in 1956 the parish was united with St Andrew.
\nIn 1952, however, the post-war shortage of building materials did not deter the Vicar of St Mark\u2019s, Biggin Hill, Kent, who wanted to replace his temporary church in this growing suburb with a more permanent structure. He gained permission to dismantle All Saints and moved 125,000 bricks and also stone and timber to Biggin Hill. \u201cThe moving church\u201d was consecrated 25 April 1959 – see St Mark’s website:\u00a0www.movingchurch.org<\/a><\/p>\nMission churches and halls<\/strong>
\nAll Saints Parochial Hall, Sumner Road<\/p>\nSt Silas\u00a0\u00a0(now St Antony With St Silas)<\/h5>\n
Ivydale Road, Nunhead,\u00a0 SE15 3DF
\nWebsite:\u00a0www.parishofnunhead.org.uk<\/a>
\nChurch history:\u00a0St Anthony with St Silas<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
- Built:\u00a0\u00a01902-13\u00a0\u00a0 Architect: J E K & J P Cutts<\/li>\n
- Consecrated:\u00a017 October 1903<\/li>\n
- Rebuilt:\u00a02003 \u00a0Architect: Oliver West & John Scott<\/li>\n
- Consecrated:\u00a026 April 2003<\/li>\n
- Parish: \u00a01904-current<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n