Former Clare College Mission Church

The Former Clare College Mission Church is a mission church that was later converted into studios. It was built around 1900 and again between 1911 and 1912 by architects John W Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton for Clare College, Cambridge. The building is constructed with ferro-concrete walls and features shallow pitched roofs covered with tiles, along with broad eaves and gables facing the short ends.

In terms of style, the church is Italianate in design. The plan is rectangular with a transept-like projection on the south side near the west end, flanked by single-storey entrance porches. At the east end, there is a single-storey polygonal apse. The church also incorporates the remains of an earlier single-storey parish room, which now projects from the north-east corner of the east end, angled towards the park.

The exterior includes segmental-arched windows in the nave with shouldered and eared flush architraves, apron sills, and a band of tile below the sills that marks a plinth approximately 2 meters high. The upper section of the west wall features a roundel, although the original lead caming of its decorative design is now damaged. On the south elevation of the transept, there are a pair of double, flat-arched lights intersecting a tile band. Under the eaves, there is a wall-mounted bellcote, above which a chimney breast runs through the eaves and terminates in a rebated stack, flanked by a pair of flat-arched windows. Round windows are located in the porch tucked into the corner at the south-west end and in the upper parts of the east elevation.

The interior was not inspected. Historically, the mission was staffed by undergraduates from Clare College, Cambridge, and was operated by the Church of the Epiphany Mission in Bermondsey. This church is noted as one of the earliest reinforced concrete churches in London and was converted into artists' studios in the late 1960s.