St Barnabas Parish Hall

St Barnabas Parish Hall is a parish hall built in 1910, designed by Ernest G Cole in the Domestic Revival Arts and Crafts style. It was erected by subscription as a memorial to King Edward VII.

The building is constructed of small hand-made red bricks laid in Flemish bond with horizontal tile details. It has a tiled roof with a wood and lead cupola and three brick chimneystacks. All windows throughout are wooden mullioned or mullioned and transomed casements with leaded lights.

The plan comprises a roughly rectangular building, narrower in the centre and aligned north-east to south-west. It consists of a south-west porch and vestibule with projecting pavilions leading to a large full-height hall of five bays. This main hall has a stage at the north-east end, beyond which sits a small single-storey hall to the north-east that is divisible, when required, into three parts, with a caretaker's flat above.

The south-west front features a large central tile-hung gable with a seven-light mullioned window. At the apex of the gable is a low square wooden clock tower with an ogee-shaped lead cupola and cast iron weathervane. Below is a wide porch with a pair of Tuscan columns framing the entrance and Tuscan pilasters on each side. The doors are a later twentieth-century addition. To the right side of the porch is a foundation stone bearing the arms of the Anglican Diocese of Southwark. Projecting forward at the sides are two lower gabled pavilions with splayed inner walls and four-light windows beneath splayed tile overhangs.

The side elevations feature swept down roofs to the pavilions and large hall. The pavilions have two mullioned windows each, while the hall has five hipped dormers with casement windows and ground floor mullioned and transomed windows divided by brick pilasters. The central bay on the south-east side has large double doors. On this side there are also two unequal-sized projecting gables with kneelers of horizontal tiles and mullioned windows. The caretaker's flat has a deep plinth.

The north-east end has a large central gable with horizontal tiled kneelers flanked by smaller unequal-sized bays. The central gable has two three-light mullioned windows to the upper floor and overhangs the lower floor, which contains a large canted bay with three mullioned and transomed windows. The northern single-storey bay has an end chimneystack and a four-light mullioned and transomed window. The southern bay has a hipped dormer with a three-light mullioned window, a four-light mullioned and transomed window, and a cambered arched doorcase.

The interior porch contains two oak wall plaques commemorating the dedication of the hall to Edward VII and the purchase of the freehold site.

The large hall spans five bays and has a wooden arch-braced roof. The trusses taper to the side walls with angled queen struts, side ties and four tiers of purlins. At the northern end is a raised panelled stage with a proscenium arch, approached by flights of steps on each side with solid balustrades.

The small hall to the north-east is divisible into three sections by folding panelled wooden partitions. It has a wooden bolection-moulded fireplace on the north-eastern wall.