Trinity Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Lambeth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1993. Church. 4 related planning applications.

Trinity Reformed Church

WRENN ID
narrow-crypt-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lambeth
Constituency
Streatham and Croydon North MP: Steve Reed (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1993
Type
Church
Address
Trinity Reformed Church, Pendennis Road, SW16 2SW
OS grid reference
TQ 303 720
Coordinates
51.43203, -0.12572
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Trinity Reformed Church is a Congregational church designed by Ernest George and Peto, built in 1876-1877 in the Vernacular Revival style. The church is constructed of stock brick with red brick and stone dressings, topped with a tiled roof featuring ridge tiles. It consists of a nave and chancel combined, with aisles and a clerestorey, as well as a porch incorporated into the north aisle.

The west front features a large two-tier, five-light round-headed window with sexfoil and cinquefoil lights above lancets, along with a brick-lined arch and bands. The north aisle has a lean-to porch with an arched doorcase and a gable above, surmounted by a cross. The clerestories on each side have four five-light half-gables with stained glass leaded lights, and below them are paired lancets separated by buttresses.

Inside, the church has a brick arcade supported by Corngrit Bath Stone columns with foliate capitals. The scissor-braced roof includes dormer windows in the nave, which anticipate the designs by R. Norman Shaw for St Michael and All Angels' Church in Bedford Park. The interior retains original box pews, a panelled reredos, and a pulpit. Notably, the tower was never built. This church is significant as Ernest George's only surviving unaltered church, following the fire that destroyed St Andrew's Guildersfield Road.

Local climate

Trinity Reformed Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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