Former Clare College Mission Church
FORMER CLARE COLLEGE MISSION CHURCH, SOUTHWARK PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385919
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former Clare College Mission Church
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CLARE COLLEGE MISSION CHURCH, SOUTHWARK PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385919
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former Clare College Mission Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER CLARE COLLEGE MISSION CHURCH, SOUTHWARK PARK
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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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CLARE COLLEGE MISSION CHURCH, SOUTHWARK PARK
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 35181 78775
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3578NW SOUTHWARK PARK 636-1/30/703 (South side) 27/06/96 Former Clare College Mission Church
II
Mission church, later converted to studios. c1900 and 1911-1912. By John W Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton. For Clare College, Cambridge. MATERIALS: ferro-concrete wall; shallow pitched roofs of tile, with broad eaves and gable facing to short ends. STYLE: Italianate. PLAN: rectangular with a transept-like projection from the south side near west end; the transept flanked by single-storey entrance porches; single-storey polygonal apse at east end. Incorporates remains of earlier single-storey parish room which now projects from the north-east corner of the east end, obliquely towards the park. EXTERIOR: windows to nave are segmental-arched with shouldered and eared flush architraves; apron sills; band of tile below sills demarcates a plinth approx 2m high. Upper section of west wall pierced by roundel. Original lead caming of decorative design now damaged. Transept, south elevation: pair of double, flat-arched lights intersecting tile band; under the eaves a wall-mounted bellcote, above which a chimney breast running through the eaves to terminate in a rebated stack; the breast flanked by a pair of flat-arched windows. Round windows to porch tucked into corner at south-west end, and in upper reaches of east elevation. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the mission was staffed by undergraduates from Clare College, Cambridge, and run by the Church of the Epiphany Mission in Bermondsey. One of the earliest reinforced concrete churches in London, the structure was converted into artists' studios in the late 1960s. (English Heritage London Division Historians: Clare College Mission Church).
Listing NGR: TQ3518178775
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471339
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
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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