Former Clare College Mission Church

SOUTHWARK

TQ3578NW SOUTHWARK PARK 636-1/30/703 (South side) 27/06/96 Former Clare College Mission Church

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Mission church, later converted to studios. c1900 and 1911-1912. By John W Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton. For Clare College, Cambridge. MATERIALS: ferro-concrete wall; shallow pitched roofs of tile, with broad eaves and gable facing to short ends. STYLE: Italianate. PLAN: rectangular with a transept-like projection from the south side near west end; the transept flanked by single-storey entrance porches; single-storey polygonal apse at east end. Incorporates remains of earlier single-storey parish room which now projects from the north-east corner of the east end, obliquely towards the park. EXTERIOR: windows to nave are segmental-arched with shouldered and eared flush architraves; apron sills; band of tile below sills demarcates a plinth approx 2m high. Upper section of west wall pierced by roundel. Original lead caming of decorative design now damaged. Transept, south elevation: pair of double, flat-arched lights intersecting tile band; under the eaves a wall-mounted bellcote, above which a chimney breast running through the eaves to terminate in a rebated stack; the breast flanked by a pair of flat-arched windows. Round windows to porch tucked into corner at south-west end, and in upper reaches of east elevation. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the mission was staffed by undergraduates from Clare College, Cambridge, and run by the Church of the Epiphany Mission in Bermondsey. One of the earliest reinforced concrete churches in London, the structure was converted into artists' studios in the late 1960s. (English Heritage London Division Historians: Clare College Mission Church).

Listing NGR: TQ3518178775