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Camberwell
St James the Apostle

Built: 1869 - 70
Architect: George Low
Diocesan Record Office: London Metropolitan Archives

The church was made redundant in 1979 and converted to residential use. The building is within the present parish of Kennington, St John the Divine with St James the Apostle.

Description

"In quite a pleasant position, opposite to Myatts Fields. The church was the gift of J L Minet, the owner of the estate, who gave the site, paid for the building (about £8,000), and provided an endowment. The foundation stone was laid on 19 June 1869, and the consecration took place on 27 June 1870. The architect was George Low, and the builders were Dove Bros.

It is a large church, in a rather Gilbert Scott-ish late thirteenth-century style: the walls are faced with Kentish rag, with Bath stone dressings; it has nave and aisles, with a tower and spire at the north-west, low transepts, and an apsidal chancel. The clerestory is a row of foiled circular windows.

The inside is quite simple, without the carved foliage that might be expected. The aisles and transepts have glass by Ward and Hughes. The windows in the apse, and the west window of the nave, are by Clayton and Bell."

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

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