The Star and Cross Church is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Chapel.

The Star and Cross Church

WRENN ID
odd-rampart-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Southwark
Constituency
Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP: Neil Coyle (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Chapel
Address
The Star and Cross Church, Falmouth Road
OS grid reference
TQ 323 790
Coordinates
51.49503, -0.09497
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Star and Cross Church, formerly known as the Welsh Presbyterian Chapel, is a Presbyterian chapel dated 1888. It is constructed from English brick with rubbed brick and stone dressings, featuring London stocks on the right return and rear where the architectural embellishment is less pronounced. The church has gable facing roofs made of slate, topped with a metal-roofed cupola.

Architecturally, it showcases a mix of Queen Anne and Romanesque Revivals styles. The T-shaped plan is divided into two tiers, likely reflecting a galleried interior, with a shallow transept at the ritual east end and a single-storey entrance porch at the ritual west. All openings are round-arched.

The exterior features a tripartite entrance at the ritual west, with the central projecting section topped by a broken pediment and flanked by lights. The ritual north elevation has strip buttresses that finish in broad scroll brackets topped by pediments, along with plate tracery and Dutch gables. The returns have three bays, each distinguished by the aforementioned buttresses. A brick dentil cornice runs along the aisles of the west elevation and returns.

The combination of different features and materials creates a varied and picturesque composition, marking it as an early example of the Queen Anne style applied to a church or chapel. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Star and Cross Church sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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