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Lambeth
St Mary-at-Lambeth

Built: 1377/1851-2
Architect: unknown/P C Hardwick
Diocesan Record Office: London Metropolitan Archives

The church was declared redundant in 1972 and now houses the Museum of Garden History. The building is in the North Lambeth parish.

Description

"The church was newly built in 1377, and the parishioners were told to rebuild the tower: the tower - repaired in 1834-5 - is all that remains: the church was entirely rebuilt by P C Hardwick, in fourteenth-century style, in 1851-2. At first the old pews were used, there were galleries in the aisles, and the organ was in a gallery: the Ecclesiologist looked forward to a further stage of the restoration - which duly came to pass. Glass was inserted: the east window was by O’Connor. A new font was given in 1852, and the old font, given in 1615, went to Holy Trinity (a church by Edward Blore, now demolished). New seating by J 0 Scott, was installed in 1885. The reredos, 1888, by J 0 Scott, had panels of terra cotta by Tinworth: this was damaged in the War, but a portion remains. The total immersion font, 1904, by J Arthur Reeve, was a memorial to Archbishop Benson. The pulpit, from St James’s, Kennington Park, was set up in 1924: the rails, from the Archbishop’s Palace at Addington, probably came from All Saints’, Maidstone: a part of them has been put up at the entrance to the baptistery. The faculty for the organ was given on 8 November 1699.

Post-War repairs were undertaken by Godfrey Allen. The new east and west windows and the ‘Pedlar’ window are by Francis Stephens.

Monuments:
Table tombs of Hugh Peyntwyn, Doctor of Laws, 1504: and John Mompesson, 1524 (or, it may be, Henry, 1509). A bust of Robert Scott, 1631. Samuel Goodbehere, 1820, by Henry Westmacott. Thomas Lett, 1830, by Chantrey.

Brasses:
Katherine Broughton, wife of Lord William Howard, 1535. Thomas Clere, 1545.

Several Archbishops of Canterbury are buried here."

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

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