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Gipsy Hill
Christ Church

Built: 1867 - 89
Architect: John Giles
Diocesan Record Office: London Metropolitan Archives

A disastrous fire destroyed the Victorian church leaving the tower fabric largely untouched. A replacement church was built in 1987 and the tower has been sold for residential use.

Description

"A large ragstone church, with slated roofs, French thirteenth-century in style, with polished granite pillars and foliated capitals. The architect was John Giles, of Giles, Gough and Trollope, and the church was consecrated on 7 June 1867. The tower, at the north-east, was completed in 1889, and vestry and porch were added in the same year."

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

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