Christ Church, Anerley Road/Maple Road, Anerley
Designed by Richard Watson and Partners and built in 1990. A complex of room with a worship area that can be partitioned off to create an extra hall in the week. The worship area has been re-orientated to face a long wall. Interior photography was not permitted on my visit, the interior view is taken through a window.
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St John the Evangelist, Beckenham Road, Penge
Next to the attractive Watermen’s Almshouses and sideways on the the street. This is church of 1850 by Edwin Nash and J.N. Round. The aisles and transepts were added in 1861 and 1866, respectively to designs by Nash. The north aisle is now divided off as a hall and the worship area re-orientated towards the north wall of the nave.
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Holy Trinity, Lennard Road, Beckenham
A short walk from Penge East station. The church was designed by E.F. Clarke and built in 1878, with the spire added in 1883. Following refurbishment in 1980 there was an arson attack in 1993 which led to a rebuilding and reopening in 1997. The sanctuary is now unroofed and used as a prayer garden, the body of the church was divided in two with the western end becoming hall space, the whole with new roofs. The aisle space towards the west is now offices and ancillary rooms. The fire exposed small areas of the original Victorian painted decoration.
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St Paul, Brackley Road, Beckenham
Standing in a large area of green near New Beckenham station. The original nave and very short sanctuary was built in 1863-64 by Smith and Williams, but enlarged by a full chancel and north and south aisle, tower and spire by Samuel Daukes in 1869-70.
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Holy Trinity, Bromley Common
At the southern end of Bromley Common. It dates from 1839 with the tower added in 1842 all by Thomas Hopper. The apse and stone tracery was added in 1884 by C. Pemberton Leach.
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St Nicholas, Church Lane, Chislehurst
Set in a spacious churchyard in the old village. It is a 15th century church, enlarged several times in the 19th century. Benjamin Ferrey rebuilt the chancel in 1849 and Bodley and Garner lengthened it in 1896, adding the organ case and reredos. The south aisle is also by Ferrey and the spire was rebuilt taller in 1857 by Wollaston.
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St Mary, Hawkwood Lane, Chislehurst (Roman Catholic)
At the southern edge of the old village of Chislehurst and unusually for a Roman catholic church it sits in a burial ground. The architect was William Wardell and the church dates from 1854. The mortuary chapel on the south side was added by Henry Clutton in 1874 to house the body of Napoleon III, however he was interred in the crypt at Farnborough Abbey in Hampshire.
Christ Church, Lubbock Road, Chislehurst
Set on a hillside in a leafy churchyard not too far from the station. This is a church of 1871-72 by Habershon and Pite. Originally the tower was at the west end of the nave but a few years after completion it was taken down, the nave extended a few feet westwards and the tower added to the south-west corner. There is a complex of halls and offices added over various dates on the north side.
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St Augustine, Southborough Lane, Bromley Common
This church replaced an iron church built in 1913. It dates from 1957 and is by a local architect Victor Heal. Its flat roof was replaced by a shallow pitched one in 1992.
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St Joseph, Plaistow Lane, Bromley (Roman Catholic)
Around a mile north east of the town centre on a busy roundabout this is a tall basilica of 1912 by Edward Goldie.
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London Churches in photographs 