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Kennington
St Barnabas

Built: 1848 - 50
Architect: Isaac Clarke & James Humphrys
Diocesan Record Office: London Metropolitan Archives

The church was declared redundant. The building was in the parish of South Lambeth, St Anne & All Saints.

Description

"The site was given by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. The Duke of Cambridge laid the foundation stone on 27 July 1848, and the church was consecrated in 1850. The cost was about £4,800, and the architects were Isaac Clarke and James Humphrys. It is of Kentish rag, with Bath stone dressings, Early English in style, with nave and aisles and a small aisleless part at the west, which once had a gallery; there are tall arcades, a small clerestory, and a hammer beam roof. The sanctuary is apsidal: a half-hearted attempt has been made to give an impression of vaulting at the east end: but there is really only a flat ceiling.

A faculty was given in 1884 to repair the church, and to remove the west gallery, and the western parts of the side galleries. Architect, Charles Moore, of 33 Lansdowne Gardens, SW. The galleries were completely removed in 1888, by J Moir Kennard.

The church was repaired in 1948. The organ came from All Saints’, Lambeth, and the pulpit from St Augustine’s, Clapham Road."

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

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