Presbytery and boundary wall to the Roman Catholic Church of the Most Holy Trinity

Presbytery and boundary wall to the Roman Catholic Church of The Most Holy Trinity, built in 1957-60 from designs by H S Goodhart-Rendel. The presbytery was completed by 1958.

PRESBYTERY

MATERIALS: patterned brick with a pitched slate eaves roof and slate hung gables.

PLAN: the presbytery is L-shaped on plan.

EXTERIOR: the presbytery is attached to the east end of the church and is in a free neo-Georgian style, with banded brickwork, striped in red on a yellow background with a panel of red brick to stair projection. Glazing bars to the upper sash windows, and to both sashes of the staircase window. Windows are segmental-headed to the ground floor and staircase and square headed above. The staircase cills step down diagonally. To the right of the staircase is a projecting porch with segmental entrance.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

BOUNDARY WALL The church and presbytery are partly enclosed by a low brick wall with red brick banding, half-round copings and gatepiers, all part of the 1950s layout.

SELECTED SOURCES Architectural History Practice, ‘The Most Holy Trinity, Dockhead, Bermondsey’, Taking Stock: RC Archdiocese of Southwark, 2011 Cherry, B. and Pevsner, N., The Buildings of England, London 2: South, Penguin, 1983 Evinson, D., Catholic Churches of London, Sheffield Academic Press, 1998 Summerson, J, ‘Goodhart-Rendel, Harry Stuart (1887–1959)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 Catholic Building Review. Southern edition, 1958, pp. 92–3; 1960, pp. 76–7 Catholic Herald, 14 June 1957; 23 October 1959; 18 March 1983