(within the parish of Reigate, St Luke with Doversgreen, St Peter)

Lynn Walk
Doversgreen
Reigate
Surrey

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St Peter’s Church
At the Parochial Church Council meeting held on 24 September 2008, the PCC decided that, for health and safety reasons, St Peter’s Church is no longer suitable for church events and will cease to be used with immediate effect

Built: 1955
Architect: E F Starling
Listing: not listed

St Peter's Church, designed in 1955 by E F Starling is sited at the corner of Potters Way and Lynn Walk in an area of post-war housing on the south side of Reigate just east of the A217.

The church is oval in shape with a clerestory section above the single storey outer area. The oval shape of the clerestory is flattened at the east and west end. on the south side of the church is St Peter's house, a two storey building of matching materials and linked to the east end of the church by a flat roofed entrance porch, with a connecting door into the church. The site slopes down from east to west and at the west end is an entrance lobby leading to the garage, stores and downstairs to the boiler room (which is below the kitchen).
The centre part of the oval, with the clerestory, forms the church at the east end with the hall to the west, divided in the centre by a glazed screen above sliding folding doors. In the lower, single storey areas round the church and hall are the sanctuary at the east end, along the north side parish office, main entrance with off each side and the Guides' store. The kitchen is at the west end and then along the south side is the classroom (Sunday School), a raised area for the organ and the clergy vestry.

The church is built of pinkish-brown sandfaced bricks and the lower oval shape is faced externally with precast concrete rectangular panels each inset with nine flints. The windows. and doors are framed with precast concrete surrounds typical of the period and the roofs are covered with felt.