Church of St Antholin is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church of St Antholin
- WRENN ID
- floating-spandrel-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Lewisham West and East Dulwich MP: Ellie Reeves (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Antholin, Nunhead Lane, SE15 3QE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 347 756
- Coordinates
- 51.46357, -0.06163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Antholin is located on Nunhead Lane in Southwark and was built in 1877 by Ewan Christian. It was restored after suffering war damage in 1957 by Laurence King. The church is constructed of red brick in the Early English style and features lancet windows. It has an aisled layout and is of special interest due to its reredos, which comes from Wren's Church of St Antholin on Watling Street, demolished in the 1870s.
Inside, the timber structure, which was also damaged but skillfully restored, includes fluted Corinthian half-columns that support a three-bay entablature with segmental pediments on either side. The central section features blank arches with gold angels' heads in the spandrels above the decalogue, and acanthus carving on the panel beneath. The flanking sections are adorned with swags of carved fruit and flowers between the capitals, inscribed with the Lord's Prayer and the Creed. The scrolled cresting is likely a replacement.
Local climate
Church of St Antholin 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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