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Dulwich Common
St Peter

Built: 1873 - 85
Architect: Charles Barry, junior
Diocesan Record Office: 

The church was declared redundant. The building is in the parish of Dulwich, St Clement with St Peter.

Description

"The site was the gift of Dulwich College, and the foundation stone was laid on 1 May 1873. The architect was Charles Barry, junior, and the builder W Downs of Southwark. The church was opened in 1874, but the nave was left incomplete. The tower and spire were completed in 1885, at the cost of F H Horniman. The foundation stone of the extension of the nave was laid on 16 July 1885. The vestry was enlarged in 1893.

Of Kentish rag outside, and brick walls inside: the walls of yellow stocks with bands of red, and the arches of red and black, with Bath stone hood-moulds. The pulpit, of Caen stone, was carved by Messrs Brindley.

Bumpus had a particular affection for this church, as he saw it being built when he was a schoolboy, and became a member of the choir. He considers it to be decidedly meritorious, if not a great work: the architect tried to do what was right. But money was wasted on external sculpture, and the spire is of very poor and commonplace outline. But he admires the clerestory, the brickwork, the foliaged ornament the delicate diapering of the apse walls, the tiled pavement of the chancel, and the glass by Hardman in the central window of the apse."

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

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