Metropolitan Tabernacle is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Baptist church. 3 related planning applications.
Metropolitan Tabernacle
- WRENN ID
- fallow-cobalt-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Country
- England
- Type
- Baptist church
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SOUTHWARK
TQ3178 NEWINGTON BUTTS 636-1/7/537 (West side) 27/09/72 Metropolitan Tabernacle
II
Baptist church with offices behind. 1859-61, 1898 (facade), extensively rebuilt c1959. By WW Pocock; facade by Searle and Hayes. For CH Spurgeon, the popular preacher. MATERIALS: coursed ragstone with ashlar dressings, banded rustication to ground floor; blocking course to sections either side of portico. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 11 bays. Giant hexastyle Corinthian portico with pediment and coffered ceiling, raised to street on rusticated stone plinth, with entablature with dentil and modillioned cornice continuing across outer sections; frieze to front of portico inscribed with name of building. 3 central doors; ground floor round-headed windows in round-arched recesses have voussoirs and radial glazing to heads; outer bays with through ways. 1st floor has moulded architraves to windows with glazing bars, the 5 central ones being round-headed and blind with swags in panels beneath bracketed sills. INTERIOR: not inspected. The facade (for which it is listed) was a reconstruction by Searle and Hayes after fire of 1898 of WW Pocock's church of 1859-61 (of which portico alone survives). Modern building behind facade a rebuilding of c1959, following war damage.
Listing NGR: TQ3192878946
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