Plumstead Deanery
Plumstead, The Ascension
Plumstead
London
SE18
Parish Contacts
Rev Clive Welham (Vicar)
The Ascension Vicarage, Thornhill Avenue, London SE18 2HS
Tel: 020-8854 3395
Sunday Services
Details of all Sunday and weekday services and activities may be obtained from the parish contactsInformation
Patron: Bishop of Southwark
Population (2001
census): 5,838
Urban Priority Area: No
Deanery: Plumstead
Archdeaconry: Lewisham & Greenwich
Episcopal Area: Woolwich
Diocesan Record Office: London
Metropolitan Archives
Plumstead
London
SE18
Built: 1903 - 11
Architect: A E Habershon
Listing: not listed
The church was built to the designs of the architect A E Habershon. Building work started in 1903. The west and east ends were added in 1911. The accommodation comprises nave and side aisles, chancel and sanctuary, vestry and organ chamber on the north side and a Lady Chapel on the south side. There is an entrance lobby at the west end and porches at the east end of the north and south Aisles. The church is constructed in the gothic style in yellow London Stock bricks with coloured terracotta details to window arches, cills, copings, etc.
The nave, aisles, chancel and sanctuary, choir vestry, organ chamber and Lady Chapel are covered in pitched slated roofs. The sacristy is covered with a flat roof.