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St George (Former), Foxberry Road, Brockley now Elim Pentecostal Church

A back street church of 1893 by W. Gilbee Scott that replaced a mission room. It was sold to the Elim Pentecostal church in 2003.

Christ Church, Church Rise, Forest Hill

A large hilltop church by Ewan Christian and dating from 1852-1862. All but the chancel is now converted to housing. The chancel is used for a Montessori school and some weekday evening services.

St Paul (Former), Taymount Rise, Forest Hill now housing

Built as a Congregational Church in 1863, in 1939 it became St Luke Spiritualist church before purchase in 1950 by the Church of England. During the 1980s it was leased out to the New Testament Assembly before becoming redundant in 1996 and sold for conversion to housing in 1997. The architects were J Hine and T. Roger Smith

St. Gregorios, Cranfield Road, Brockley (Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church)

Over the road from St Peter, this was its church hall built in 1879. It is now used as an Indian Orthodox Church which opened in 2005.

Waverley Park Mission (Former), Ivydale Road, Nunhead now Peckham Seventh Day Adventist

Very little is known about this church which was built 1895-1896 and is now used by the Seventh Day Adventists. The red brick fronts a much plainer stock brick building.

St Andrew Mission (Former), Waghorn Street, Peckham now Rosicrucian

Built as a Mission to St John in 1902 but declared redundant as early as 1932 and sold in 1948. The architect is not recorded.  It is now a Rosicrucian meeting hall.

St Peter (Former), Lordship Lane, Dulwich Common now Deeper Life Church

A large church with an adjacent hall both designed by Charles Barry Junior, started in 1987-74 but the tower and west end were only completed in 1885. It was declared redundant in 1984 and before becoming part of the Deeper Life Church it was used by the Benedictine Community of Worth Abbey.

St Mathew, Lilford Road, Loughborough Junction

Replacing a WW2 damaged church, it was built by Ralph Covell in 1959

All Saints and St Stephen Former), Surrey Square, Walworth now Church of the Lord (Aldura)

A replacement for a bombed 19th-century church by N.F. Cachemaille-Day dating from 1959. It closed in 1975 and was taken on by the Church of the Lord in 1977.

All Hallows (Former), Pepper Street, Southwark

This was a major church by G.G. Scott junior built in 1879-1880. Most was destroyed in WW2 but a chapel and some other remains were adapted as a church by Thomas F. Ford in 1957. It became redundant in 1971 and after a period as a recording studio, it is now being used as temporary housing accommodation. The churchyard is a public open space.