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Camberwell
The church was declared redundant in 1972 and is used by the Celestial Church of Christ. A new church centre was built in 1982-83. Description "A Grecian Commissioners’ church in an out-of-the-way part of Camberwell. It stands the south bank of the Grand Surrey Canal, for which the first Act of Parliament was passed in 1801: it leaves the Thames at Rotherhithe, and was meant to go as far as Mitcham, but got no further than Camberwell. Francis Octavius Bedford was the architect: the foundation stone was laid on 23 April 1822, and the Bishop of Winchester consecrated it on 24 March 1824. The cost was £16,700, towards which the Commissioners gave £5,000 (and a further £1,382 for repairs after the church was finished). Sharpe and Day were the contractors for the masonry, and Wells and Berriman for the bricklaying. It is almost the same as Bedford’s slightly later church of St John, Waterloo Road: a Doric portico with myrtle wreaths on the frieze, and a tower which is like the others that Bedford designed. The interior was described as ‘naked and empty’ soon after the church was built. The ceiling is flat and panelled, and there are galleries on Doric columns. The only ornament is the pilasters between the windows. Repairs are recorded - as they ought to be - by inscriptions: 1862, William Berriman, surveyor, and 1880, T V Marsh surveyor. In 1893 an apse was added by Basil Champneys. In 1909 a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, gave the mosaic above the altar, the screens to the vestry and chapel, and the marble pavement in the chapel: the walls were ‘newly decorated and embellished’. There was post-War work in 1954, by T Carr. There is a number of wall tablets, none specially interesting." (from 'Parish Churches of London', Basil F L Clarke, Batsford, 1966) |
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