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Clare College Mission (Former), Dilston Grove, Bermondsey
Forming part of the boundary of Southwark Park in an area of much more recent housing. It was designed by Sir John William Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton and built in 1911. It has been redundant since about 1950 and was converted into art studios in the 1960s but is now run by a community arts charity called CGP. It was renovated in 2010 by Walter Menteth Ltd.
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Swedish Seamen’s Church (Former), Lower Road, Rotherhithe
A short way south of the other seamen’s churches, this one was closed in 2012. The street front of 1964-1966 is by Bent Jörgen Jörgensen and Elkington Smithers, this incorporated at the rear a 1939 church designed by Wigglesworth and Marshall Mackenzie.
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St Margaret Clitherow, Kingswood Drive, South Dulwich (Roman Catholic)
Further south than St Stephen but still on the Dulwich College estate, this is a small church of 1973-1974 by Anthony Stalley of Broadbent, Hastings Reid & Todd.
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St Stephen, College Road, South Dulwich
Serving the southern part of the Dulwich college estate this is a church of 1867-1875 by Banks and Barry (Charles Barry junior). The western bays of the nave being added after the completion of the rest of the church, these attached the tower which had been freestanding to the rest of the building. It required restoration after WW2 damage, however, the 1872 painting of the trial and stoning of St Stephen by Sir Ernest Poynter survived.
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St Hugh, Porlock Street, Bermondsey
At the base of a small block of flats, not far from St George the Martyr. The church is entered through a hall area and has several 19th-century Clayton and Bell windows from the previous building now mounted at ground level inside both the church and hall, those in the church face inwards, those in the hall outwards. The original St Hugh was in the basement of the Charterhouse-in-Southwark Mission Settlement and was built in 1896 but it was demolished in 2011. The new church is at street level and was opened in 2013.
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St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey Street, Bermondsey
This is the historic parish church of Bermondsey and the lower part of the tower is still medieval. It is mostly is a rebuilding by Charles Stanton of 1675-1679. However, its external appearance is due to a stucco coating and a very un-archaeological gothic west front added in 1830 by George Porter.
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St Philip and St Mark, Avondale Square, Bermondsey
On the edge of a square of 1960s housing, the church, which is one of N.F. Cachemaille-day’s last dating from 1963, replaced a church of 1875 destroyed in WW2, although the hall survived next door. The reredos and ceiling painting is by John Hayward. At the end are my exterior photos from 2018 when it wasn’t raining.
2018
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St Anne, Thorburn Square, Bermondsey
Now surrounded by 1960s low rise housing, this is a church of 1869-1870 by J. Porter.
St Mark (Former), Coburg Road, Camberwell now New Peckham Mosque
The chancel, nave eastern end and south chancel aisle are by R. Norman saw from 1879-1884. The western end, that is visible from Coburg Road, dates from 1932. It closed as a church in 1965 and was in various uses until it became the New Peckham Mosque in 1980. It is on the edge of the late 20th century Burgess Park.
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St Giles, Camberwell Church Street, Camberwell
Alongside the road with a spacious but cleared churchyard behind. This is an early Scott and Moffat church from 1844, it replaced a church that burnt down in 1841. It is one of the earliest large scholarly gothic revival churches. There are several brasses and the sedilla from the previous church. The south transept has late Comper glass and the great east window which survived wartime bombing is by Ward and Nixon to designs by John Ruskin (a rare example of a design by him) and Edmund Oldfield.
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London Churches in photographs 