Useful information
Patron
The Bishop
Episcopal Area
Woolwich Episcopal Area
Deanery
East Lewisham Deanery
Archdeaconry
Lewisham and Greenwich Archdeaconry
Details of the Church
Built
1903
Architect
Philip A Robson
Listing
2*
The church, consecrated in October 1904, forms part of the South Germans Estate built by Cameron Corbett as part of the development of South London.
The architect thought that the atmospheric conditions prevailing at the time meant that much external ornamentation was a waste, so he gave it a certain reticent dignity and reserved his best decoration for the interior.
The style is, according to the architect, ‘an adaptation of fourteenth century English Gothic’, known as ‘decorated’, but the symbolism attached to this style has been treated in a manner more suited to the period of its construction.
