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East Greenwich
Christ Church

Built: 1847 - 49
Architect: John Brown & Robert Kerr
Diocesan Record Office: 

The Victorian church building has been declared redundant and a new church was completed in May 1989 as part of the Christchurch Forum project and is attached on the north and west side of the old church.

Description

"Built in 1847-9 from designs by John Brown and Robert Kerr, of Norwich, who won a competition. The cost was £7,741.

The Ecclesiologist did not criticise this church: if it had done so, it would certainly have had a good deal to say. The plan would have been found fault with: a wide, galleried, aisleless nave, with a south-west tower (designed for a spire that was never built): a projection on the south, a north vestry, and an eastern apse. The style is Perpendicular, with ragstone walls and brick quoins. There are two-light windows and a larger window at the west, which looks quite well. The galleries have been removed, except at the west, and a small projection on each side. The new vestry was designed in 1887 by Thomas Dinwiddy, of Greenwich. The elaborate font and pulpit are later than the church: the carved sanctuary chairs are no doubt original."

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

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