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Bermondsey
St Crispin

Built: 1958 - 59
Architect: Thomas Ford
Diocesan Record Office: London Metropolitan Archives

The original church on this site (built 1879-80, designed by Coe & Robinson) was destroyed by bombing during 1940 and the present church was completed in 1958 to the designs of Thomas Ford.

The parish was dissolved on 1 August 1999 and split between the neighbouring parishes of Bermondsey, St James with Christ Church and Rotherhithe, St Mary with All Saints.  The church was made redundant on the same date.

Description

"The new church, by Thomas F Ford, was begun in 1958, and consecrated in July 1959. It has a square central space, with three shallow arms - organ gallery and transepts; and a larger sanctuary, with narrow aisles and a chapel on the left. There is a little Greek detail. The mural above the altar is by Hans Feibusch, 1959: the ceiling is painted with sky and clouds. The glass in the chapel is by M. C. Farrar Bell."

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

At the south west corner of the church, and attached to it, is a large church hall with ancillary rooms to the west and north.

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