New Peckham Mosque (Former Church Of St Mark)

The New Peckham Mosque, originally the Church of St Mark, is a church building dating from 1879 to 1880, designed by Norman Shaw. A western extension was added in 1931-2 by Victor Heal, and earlier additions to the east end by Shaw, completed in 1883, were removed following bomb damage. The building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings, and has steeply pitched slate roofs over the nave and a hipped roof over the aisles.

The church is a hall church with a wide, double-aisled three-bay nave, a chancel, and short chancel aisles. The western end, completed in the 20th century, features a full-height single-bay extension (possibly intended as a baptistry), a wooden clock tower with a copper spike, and a larger, more elaborately traceried west window. Flat-roofed, single-storey entrance bays are positioned on either side of the western end. The main body of the church has tall, pointed windows with simple Y-tracery and hoodmoulds.

Inside, the nave and aisles are of equal height and feature timber groin-vaulted ceilings. Freestanding octagonal brick piers are present, and the aisle walls are encased in an original cement dado moulded to resemble wood. A chancel screen sits on a dwarf stone wall, with Perpendicular detailing within the apex of the chancel arch.