(a member of the East Greenwich Team Ministry)

Kirkside Road
Blackheath
London
SE3

Location map

Parish Contacts

Rev Dr Malcolm Torry (Team Rector - St George)
37 Becquerel Court, West Parkside, London SE10 0QQ
Tel: 020-8858 3006
E-mail: Malcolm@torry.org.uk

Parish Office
Christchurch Forum, Trafalgar Road, London SE10 9EQ
Tel: 020-8305 2339

Sunday Services

11.00 amHoly Communion (ASB Rite A)
(with Children's Church)Facilities: Disable access, toilets, disabled toilet, crèche, large print books/service sheets

Further details of all Sunday and weekday services and activities may be obtained from the parish contacts

Information

Tradition: Central
Local Ecumenical Partnership with the Methodist, United Reformed and Roman Catholic Churches.

Urban Priority Area: Yes/No

Introduction to parish

St. George's is a Parish Church, with a local, diverse and friendly congregation. The main Sunday act of worship is a service of Holy Communion at 11 a.m., and a Children's Church meets at the same time. There is a variety of other activities, and a speciality is community drama. (Members of St. Georges gave birth to plans for the Greenwich Passion Play).

The building is being refurbished; there will soon be a new organ; and a Steiner Nursery School now occupies two rooms on the lower ground floor.

Kirkside Road
Blackheath
London
SE3

Location map

Built: 1890 - 92
Architect: Newman & Newman
Listing: not listed

St. George’s Church, consecrated in 1892, was built on a steeply sloping site with high, massively constructed timber pitched roof (17 metres from the floor of the church to the ridge), substantial buttressed brick walls with filler joist floors. There are small windows to the side aisle and clerestory windows to the main body of the church. Due to shortage of funds, the church was built in two halves, the first up to the 4th arch of the nave and completed when money became available. The Silvertown explosion in 1917 shook the church severely and it is recorded that the north arcade and east wall were affected. One pillar was broken and a wall stripped of plaster. During the Second World War the roof was lifted and returned four inches out of place. This was put right when war damage repairs were carried out in 1947-50.