St Gabriel’s Chapel, Cormont Road, Kennington (former)
On the opposite site of Myatt’s Fields Park from st James, Knatchbull Road. It is the chapel of a former teacher training college and now in domestic use. It dates from 1903 and was designed by P.A. Robson.
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St James, Knatchbull Road, Kennington (former)
Overlooking Myatt’s Fields Park it dates from 1869-70 and was designed by George Low. It was made redundant in 1981 and converted to a housing development called Black Roof House.
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St John the Divine, Vassall Road, Kennington
A landmark a few 100 metres off Brixton Road. It is by G.E. Street 1870-74 with the spire completed 1888-89 under A.E. Street. Internal decoration by G.F. Bodley was added in 1890-92. It was restored, following war damage, by H.S. Goodhart-Rendel in 1955-58
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St Michael, Stockwell Park Road, Stockwell
Built 1840-41 and designed by W. Rogers. It is a typical commissioner’s style church of its date but with a rather fanciful frontage. Its future is under consideration as is St Andrew, Stockwell (Dec 2014).
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St James, Park Hill/Briarwood Road, Clapham Park
Lying between the two streets above this is a church of 1958 by N.F.Cachemaille-Day replacing a church of 1829 destroyed in WW2.
Holy Spirit, Narbonne Avenue, Clapham
Just off Abbeville Road east of the Common. It is a very tall church of 1912-13 by H.P. Burke-Downing.
St Anselm, Kennington Road, Kennington Cross
Planned in 1911 but not built until 1932-33 to designs by Adshead & Ramsey. The murals are by Norman Adams
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St John, Waterloo Road, Waterloo
Built 1822-24 and designed by Francis Bedford. The interior was restored after war damage by T.F. Ford in 1951. The church reopened in October 2022 with a restored nave, crypt, and a new narthex with a glass screen looking into the nave. The pulpit has been removed, the font resited against a wall, and different seating installed. The paintings on the sanctuary wall and reredos are by Hans Feibusch. This £5.5 million work was designed by Eric Parry Architects.
November 2022
November 2014
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St Paul, Rectory Grove, Clapham
Built in 1815 by C.Edmonds. The east end was added by Arthur Blomfield in a romanesque style in 1879. Apart from the Lady Chapel, containing impressive monuments, this is now separated off from the church as a community centre
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St Peter, Kennington Lane, Vauxhall
John Loughborough Pearson’s earliest vaulted urban parish church dating from 1863. Incongruously a city farm now comes right up to its walls.
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London Churches in photographs 