CHURCH OF ST CHRISTOPHER (FORMER PEMBROKE COLLEGE MISSION CHURCH), AND NO. 80

CHURCH OF ST CHRISTOPHER (FORMER PEMBROKE COLLEGE MISSION CHURCH), AND NO. 80, TATUM STREET

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Former Pembroke College Mission church, now Anglican church, and house to right of church, No. 80. 1891, 1895 and 1908-9. By Edward S Prior, completed by Herbert Passmore. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376551
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1998
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST CHRISTOPHER (FORMER PEMBROKE COLLEGE MISSION CHURCH), AND NO. 80
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST CHRISTOPHER (FORMER PEMBROKE COLLEGE MISSION CHURCH), AND NO. 80, TATUM STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1376551
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1998
Date of most recent amendment:: 24-Jan-2011
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST CHRISTOPHER (FORMER PEMBROKE COLLEGE MISSION CHURCH), AND NO. 80
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST CHRISTOPHER (FORMER PEMBROKE COLLEGE MISSION CHURCH), AND NO. 80, TATUM STREET

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:: CHURCH OF ST CHRISTOPHER (FORMER PEMBROKE COLLEGE MISSION CHURCH), AND NO. 80, TATUM STREET

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Southwark (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 33015 78582

Details

List description amended on 24 January 2011.

636-1/8/31 TATUM STREET 24-JAN-11 Walworth (Southwest side) Church of St Christopher (former Pembr oke College Mission Church), and No. 80 (Formerly listed as: BARLOW STREET Walworth PEMBROKE COLLEGE MISSION) (Formerly listed as: BARLOW STREET Walworth NUMBER 80 AND CHURCH OF ST CHRISTOPER, WALWORTH) (Formerly listed as: HALPIN STREET Walworth FORMER CARETAKERS HOUSE TO PEMBROKE CO LLEGE MISSION)

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Also Known As: Former Caretaker's Lodge to Pembroke College Mission, HALPIN PLACE, Walworth Former Pembroke College Mission church, now Anglican church, and house to right of church, No. 80. 1891, 1895 and 1908-9. By Edward S Prior, completed by Herbert Passmore. Materials: red brick in English bond; roofs of tile and slate.

PLAN: church with club rooms, kitchens and WCs to ground floor of corner plot and return to Huntsman Street.

EXTERIOR: the domestic ranges to Tatum Street, including No. 80, have two storeys with dormers and an almost scattered fenestration; three roof dormers; two segmental-arched entrances. The original glazing (Prior's patent glass in cast-iron casements) has been replaced in the two right-hand bays, ground and first floors. Casements of an authentic design to the rest and the dormers. Chancel range of church/club block has two windows to ground floor; the present entrance to the church and rooms is in a recessed range between the chancel and corner tower with its louvered bellcote, pyramidal roof and groin-vaulted corner entrance.

Transept range to return along Huntsman Street with stepped round-arched windows lighting vaulted stair to church on first floor. Three windows to ground floor of return. The church itself has nave and aisles of five bays, square-ended chancel and transept. Skylights now fill the position of the original shallow-pitched dormers.

The rear elevation to Halpin Place has an unusual canted front line and features a caretaker's house at the north of the block, this latter according to Prior's 1891 design.

Rainwater goods bearing the date 1908 are intact. A memorial plaque to the 1908 building campaign is set in the tower.

HISTORY: The Pembroke College Mission (Cambridge University), founded in 1885, appointed the architect, Edward Schroeder Prior in 1891 to build their London mission church. Only the ground floor of the 1891 design by Edward S Prior was executed; the warden's house to the rear in Halpin Place, with its unusual canted front wall, was completed to the original design soon after. All of No. 80 was added to Prior's designs of 1895. In 1899 on the death of the architect's brother, Charles Prior (who was a tutor at Pembroke and member of the mission committee) Prior lost the job as mission architect. The upper floors of the mission, including the first-floor church/hall, were completed by Herbert Passmore in 1908-9. Passmore followed Prior's plan, in the main, but simplified the massing and details considerably. The line and elevation of Prior's design is most irregular, reflecting his own theories of organic building and his idiosyncratic use of detail, in particular the unusual mullioned windows to the ground floor of the church and the mission house along Tatum Street.

SOURCES: (RIBA Drawings Collection: ES Prior drawings; Kent NB (editor): Cambridge in South London: Cambridge: 1914-; Walker L (Birkbeck College, London): E.S. Prior (PhD thesis, University of London, 1978); English Heritage: London Region Historians' File, So 196).

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The Church of St Christopher (former Pembroke College Mission), with No. 80 Tatum Street, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural special interest: an unusual and interesting design by the prominent late C19 architect, Edward Prior, as completed by Herbert Passmore. * Historical special interest: a rare and nearly intact survival of an 'Oxbridge' mission building from the late C19.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 470554
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.