New Peckham Mosque (Former Church of St Mark)

NEW PECKHAM MOSQUE (FORMER CHURCH OF ST MARK), COBOURG ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1378492
Date first listed:
30-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:
New Peckham Mosque (Former Church of St Mark)
Statutory Address:
NEW PECKHAM MOSQUE (FORMER CHURCH OF ST MARK), COBOURG ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1378492
Date first listed:
30-Jun-1954
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Sept-1998
List Entry Name:
New Peckham Mosque (Former Church of St Mark)
Statutory Address 1:
NEW PECKHAM MOSQUE (FORMER CHURCH OF ST MARK), COBOURG ROAD

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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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NEW PECKHAM MOSQUE (FORMER CHURCH OF ST MARK), COBOURG ROAD

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 33678 77920

Details

SOUTHWARK

TQ3377 COBOURG ROAD 636-1/10/219 (East side) 30/06/54 New Peckham Mosque (former Church of St Mark) (Formerly Listed as: COBOURG ROAD (East side) Church of St Mark)

II

Church, now mosque. 1879-80. By Norman Shaw, completed at west end 1931-2 by Victor Heal. (Additions to east end of 1883 by Shaw removed after bomb damage.) MATERIALS: red brick with stone dressings; slate roofs, steeply pitched over nave, hipped over aisles. PLAN: a hall church with wide, double-aisled 3-bay nave, chancel and short chancel aisles; some Perpendicular detail. EXTERIOR: West end completed C20 with full height 1-bay extension of nave (as Baptistry?) with wooden clock tower with copper spike and larger, more elaborately traceried west window; flat roofed, 1-storey entrance bays to either side. Main body of church has tall, pointed windows with simple Y-tracery and hoodmoulds. INTERIOR: has timber groin-vaulted nave and aisles of equal height. Freestanding octagonal brick piers and aisle walls encased in (original) cement dado, moulded to resemble wood. Chancel screen on dwarf stone wall is decorated within the apex of the chancel arch with Perpendicular detail.





Listing NGR: TQ3367877920

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Legacy System number:
470793
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.

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