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St Nicholas, Whetstone Road, Kidbrooke
Built in 1953 to serve a large estate in the east of Kidbrooke. The architect is not recorded.
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St James, Kidbrooke Park Road, Kidbrooke
On the main road north out of Kidbrooke, this is a church of 1866-167 by Newman and Billing which had to be considerably rebuilt after WW2 damage.
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St John the Evangelist, Stratheden Road, Blackheath
To the north of the actual heath and village, this church was built in 1852-53 by Arthur Ashpitel Inside the western end of the nave is divided off for rooms and offices.
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Our Lady of Grace, Charlton Road, Charlton (Roman Catholic)
A church of 1905 by Eugéne-Jacques Gervais. It gained an outer north aisle in 1959.
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St Thomas, Woodland Terrace, Charlton
Well to the north of the village this is a church of 1849-1850 by Joseph Gwilt. Inside the west end of the nave is divided off as a flat-ceilinged hall while the east end and apse are still used as a church with a curved ceiling added. Above these spaces, the building has been divided up into halls, from which the original timber roof is visible.
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St Luke, The Village, Charlton
A rebuilding in brick, from 1630, of the medieval church. The north aisle is 1639, but the eastern sections were added in 1840 and 1873. The interior is chock full of memorial tablets and monuments, unfortunately, two of the largest are rather obscured by stored material.
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St Catherine Labouré (Former), Woolwich Rd, Woolwich (Roman Catholic) now the Lithuanian Christian Church
Just outside Maryon Park on an industrial stretch of Woolwich Road west of Woolwich town centre. It was built in 1961 by Walters & Kerr Bate as a Chapel Of Ease to Woolwich. It has, in recent years, passed to the Lithuanian Christian Church.
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St Michael, Pond Road, Blackheath Park
Designed to be part of the Blackheath Park estate to the south of the town centre. It is by George Smith and dates from 1828-1829 in a typical “commissioner’s” style, but with a very eccentric eastern spire.
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St Saviour, Middle Park Avenue, Eltham
One of the earliest Modern Movement church buildings dating from 1932-1933. It looms, bulky and grey over the surrounding streets of two storey houses. The architects were Welch, Lander and Nugent Cachemaille-Day. Inside there are blue slit windows above the altar and brick and concrete fittings including the reredos, pulpit and font. There is also a small side chapel with dalle de verre glass.
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St Francis (Former), Sibthorpe Road, Eltham (now Horn Park Community Centre)
Open in 1953 and designed by Ralph Covell. It was used as a church until 1962. In 1981 it was leased to the Community Association until 2006 after which it was occasionally used for services, but it now purely a Community Centre.
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London Churches in photographs 