CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, HIGH STREET SE20

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268472
Date first listed:: 16-May-1996
List Entry Name:: CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Statutory Address:: CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, HIGH STREET SE20

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268472
Date first listed:: 16-May-1996
List Entry Name:: CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, HIGH STREET SE20

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, HIGH STREET SE20

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Bromley (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 35699 69924

Details

TQ 36 NE 785-0/2/10034

PENGE HIGH STREET SE20 Congregational Church II Congregational Church. 1911-12. Percy Richard Morley Horder, architect. Ragstone with stone dressing. Slate roof.

Rectangular plan. Nave with low, lean-to aisles, short tower at west end with vestry rooms adjoining.

EXTERIOR: Steeply-pitched roof with tall pointed, recessed and splayed window in gable end. Below: three-light window with cusped heads to light entrance vestibule. Entrance to left through low porch. Clerestory of nine windows with trefoil heads, small flat-arched windows to aisles. Squat, crenellated tower with louvered openings to belfry supported by unusual, irregularly stepped buttresses.

INTERIOR: Timber roof with crown post tie supports. Simple stone-faced walls to arcades of three bays each, with wide, shallow pointed and moulded arches. Square chamfered piers. Arcade walls articulated horizontally by moulded strings and vertically by chamfered stone ribs which terminate in large, naturalistically-carved corbels. Some depict the emblems of the Evangelists. The ribs extend up to the roof level terminating in moulded caps. Three clerestory windows per bay, with shallow pointed arches and splayed soffits. Square chamfered piers. Narrow passage aisles with pointed arches, and flat-arched, plain-glazed windows to aisles. Tall west window with Decorated tracery, plain glazed, flanked by small arched recesses: each has a separate gallery with panelled wooden fronts. East end: stone, moulded chancel arch leading to shallow, three-sided chancel with painted, vaulted ceiling. Coloured glazed windows high above. Panelled dais to match panelled reredos, a simple tripartite pierced screen. Pierced front to communion table. Carved wooden organ cases in Gothic Revival style either side of the choir. Original choir stalls, pulpit, reading desk and pews, and light fittings. Chapel in southeast corner divided by screen with carved and gilded frieze.

Vestry room to rear of church: panelled with wooden fire-surround, one original light fitting. A simple and elegant interior, completely intact. Percy Richard Morley Horder was the son of Pev. William Garrett Horder, a Congregational hymnologist. Morley Horder was articled to George Devey from whom he absorbed a love of the English vernacular tradition of building. Morley Horder's practice included a number of Congregational Churches built just before the First World War in the London suburbs, and the Cheshunt Congregational College in Cambridge.

Listing NGR: TQ3569969924

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Legacy System number:: 461785
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.