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St Mary & St John, Wickham Court, Layhams Road, West Wickham (Coptic Orthodox)
Wickham Court is a medieval house with later additions for a school and convent. The Coptic congregation began in Elmers End in 2007 and established a church in one of the galleries in 2023 along with a church centre in other parts of the building. Some of the site has been converted for housing with the main house and other buildings at the road end undergoing work in July 2024.
St Francis of Assisi, Ravenswood Avenue, West Wickham
The church for the modern town centre of West Wickham. It dates from 1935 and is a typical Newberry & Fowler interwar church. A nondescript north aisle was added in 1973. The east window replaces a war damaged window.
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St John the Baptist, off Layhams Road, West Wickham
The old village church a mile or so south of the modern town centre on a hill-top, it can still be approached across fields. The nave, north aisle and tower were rebuilt in 1847 by Whichcord and Whichcord.. Sedding added an organ chamber in 1889. A second story was added to the north chapel in 1961.
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St Mark, High Street/Manor Park Road, West Wickham (Roman Catholic)
West of the town centre at a road junction this is a church of 1962 by Bingham Towner Associates.
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St Mary of Nazareth, The Avenue, West Wickham
North of the current town centre down a suburban street. The original church, now the hall, was by Martin Travers and built in 1934. The current church of 1954 was designed by C.W. Fowler. There is a first floor lady chapel in the transept like structure between the two. The fish is a fossil in the altar step.
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London Churches in photographs 