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Battersea
St Peter

Built: 1875 - 76
Architect: William White
Diocesan Record Office: London Metropolitan Archives

The church was destroyed by fire in 1970. The steeple, which survived the fire, was demolished in 1994 due to severe structural problems in the brickwork. The present church buildings comprise an old school building attached to a multipurpose church hall and community centre.

Description

"The temporary church, afterwards a school, was opened in 1874. George Cubitt promised £5,000 for a permanent building, and the foundation stone was laid on St Peter’s day, 1875: the consecration was exactly a year later.

This is one of White’s simple brick churches. The builder was Carter. A rather wide and short nave has aisles, and an apse at the west: there is only one window in the aisles, and the light comes from the clerestory, which is carried round the western apse as well. There is no chancel arch, and the chance! is of one bay only: on the south, organ chamber and vestry lead to an otherwise detached tower with gabled spire - large in proportion to the rest of the church. This was completed in 1911.

The glass in the eastern triplet is by Heaton, Butler and Bayne; east of the north chapel, by Clayton and Bell; north of the chapel, by Tower."

(from 'Parish Churches of London', Basil F L Clarke, Batsford, 1966)

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