Merton Deanery
Merton, St James
Parish Contacts
The Rev. Jonathan Easton-Crouch (Vicar)
The Vicarage
Beaford Grove
London
SW20 9LB
Tel: 020 8715 4353
E-mail:
jonathan.easton-crouch@virgin.net
Sunday Services
9.00am
Morning Prayer
9.30am Sung Eucharist
6.30pm Evening Prayer
11.00am Family Service
(first Sunday in the
month)
Details of weekday services are on the
noticeboard in the porch.
Further details of all Sunday and weekday services and activities may be obtained from the parish contacts
Information
Patron: Bishop of Southwark & the Vicar of Merton, St Mary
Population (2001
census): 5,670
Urban Priority Area: No
Deanery: Merton
Archdeaconry: Lambeth
Episcopal Area: Kingston
Diocesan Record Office: Surrey
History Centre
Details of Church
Built: 1957
Architect: Thomas Ford & Partners
Listing: not listed
The accommodation comprises nave, aisles, sanctuary, west choir, chapel, choir vestry, priest's vestry, sacristy, toilet, south west porch and tower rooms. The church is built in a classical style. The walls are constructed is sand faced multi-coloured facing bricks and there are reconstructed stone dressings to windows, buttresses and parapets. The tower roof is constructed in reinforced concrete and an octagonal concrete spire rises approximately 7m above the roof. The spire roof is covered in copper and is surmounted by a copper boss and ornamental cross. The roof over the nave, aisles and chancel is covered in interlocking Roman clay tiles and is supported on steel trusses carried on the main walls.