Christ Church

LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON COPSE HILL, SW20 TQ 2370 7/31 Christ Church - II

Church. 1859-60. S S Teulon, architect. Later alterations including addition of west bay and west wall in 1881 by Charles Maylard. Muscular Gothic manner. Squared, coursed rubblestone. Steeply pitched slate roof to eaves. 6 bay aisled nave, no clerestory. Low square, massive tower over choir, with pyramidal roof and north eastern stair turret with conical roof; bell louvre to each face of tower. Transept to south; north east vestry. Pointed arches with Geometrical and Decorated tracery. Pair of dormers to south side of nave. Interior with chamfered stone piers ;carved capitals; pointed arcade arches more elaborately moulded to choir. Panelled roof with arched braces, hammer beams and traceried spandrels. 5-light flowing traceried east and west windows. 3-light geometrical traceried aisle windows. Blind arcading to walls of chancel. Reredos 1907-12 by E C Shearman. Timber pulpit; blocky stone font; eagle lectern, some Victorian and Edwardian stained glass etc. London 2: South B Cherry and N Pevsner.

Listing NGR: TQ2315170261