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Forest Hill
The church was bombed in the Second World War and has been completely demolished. A former Congregational church was purchased in 1965 and became the new St Paul's. This church was declared redundant and sold for residential use in 1996. The buildings were within the area of the present parish of Forest Hill, Christ Church with St Paul. Description "[The church] had an accommodation greater than the number of parishioners: the church was seated for a thousand, but the population of the parish was only 678." "The original church in Waldenshaw Road - the one that was seated for more than the total population of the parish - was designed by Apleton and Mountford, and built in 1882-3. It was bombed, and has been entirely demolished." (from 'Parish Churches of London', Basil F L Clarke, Batsford, 1966) Built: 1863 The church was declared redundant and sold for residential use in 1996. Description "The church in Taymount Rise was built as a Congregational church in 1863: the architects were J Hine of Plymouth and T Roger Smith. It afterwards became Spiritualist (St Luke's Church of teh Spiritual Evangel). It was bought as the new St Paul's, adapted, and consecrated on 24 January 1965. It is an ugly, rather pleasant little building, with an open porch, French thirteenth-century, in the front, and a small tower beside it. The inside has been divided into nave and aisles by iron columns bearing round arches: the galleries have been taken down. Font, pulpit, and lectern are from the old St Paul's: the priest's stalls came from a Baptist chapel at Reigate. The wheel window over the altar has glass by Alan Younger. This is a far more attractive church than its ambitious predecessor." (from 'Parish Churches of London', Basil F L Clarke, Batsford, 1966) |
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