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Kennington Park
St Agnes

Built: 1875 - 77
Architect: G G Scott, junior
Diocesan Record Office: London Metropolitan Archives

The church was bombed in 1941 and replaced by a new church built in 1956.

Description

"This beautiful church was designed by G G Scott, junior, and built in 1875-7: it was completed by Temple Moore, who designed some of the furniture. It was tall and simple, with nave and chancel under one roof, in a style rather like Bodley’s - late fourteenth century, with unnecessary features eliminated, but richly fitted, with screen, rood loft, rood, altar piece, etc.: an ideal setting for sung eucharists and processions.

It was bombed in 1941, and its place has been taken by a small new church, 1956, by Ralph Covell, in which some fittings were replaced: others went to the church of the Holy Spirit, Southampton. The glass is by T Shapland."

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

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