Church of Our Lady of Seven Dolours is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of Our Lady of Seven Dolours
- WRENN ID
- young-sentry-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Peckham MP: Miatta Fahnbulleh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Our Lady of Seven Dolours, Bird in Bush Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 343 774
- Coordinates
- 51.47983, -0.06618
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Our Lady of Seven Dolours is a Roman Catholic church built between 1864 and 1866, designed by Edward Welby Pugin. It is constructed of stock brick with black brick and stone banding, topped with a pitched slate roof above a brick eaves cornice. The church features a Gothic architectural style with a tall nave and buttressed aisles.
The southwest entrance has a hipped roof and a mosaic in the tympanum, which may have been added later. The north aisle includes a one-storey extension with a row of lancet windows. There are small gabled extensions with rose windows at the crossing point, and the gabled east end showcases a large rose window above a row of narrow lancets, flanked by twin buttresses. The side aisles have smaller rose windows at their east ends and narrow lancet aisle windows with a continuous stone band at the spring. The chancel clerestory features quatrefoil windows, and there is a friary attached to the north in a similar style.
Inside, the church is plain and whitewashed, with a five-bay nave arcade consisting of narrow pointed arches. The chancel is panelled in various coloured marbles, and the ceiling is arch braced and panelled.
Local climate
Church of Our Lady of Seven Dolours 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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