Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3278 CHATHAM STREET
636-1/8/202 (North side)
11/08/94 Lady Margaret Church
(Formerly Listed as:
CHATHAM ROAD
(North side)
Lady Margaret Church)

II

Anglican church, now disused. 1888-9. By Ewan Christian. Red
brick with stone dressings.
STYLE: the overall style is Early English, the proportions
adjusted and the surfaces made sheer for dramatic and
expressive effect.
PLAN: the main vessel of the building has a steeply pitched
slate roof which maintains the same level from nave to chancel
and wraps around the apsidal east end. A candle snuffer bell
cote marks the division between the nave and transepts which
scarcely project beyond the face of the narrow north and south
aisles and which are linked, at the west end, by an equally
narrow narthex. The main door of the church, which has a
segmental pointed arch surmounted by a drip moulding, is at
the south end of the narthex.
EXTERIOR: west end has triple lancet window and has
cross-shaped saddlestone and kneelers . Five bay nave with
lancets to clerestorey and no windows to nave but pattern of
pilasters . Gabled transepts with kneelers, cross-shaped
saddlestones and double lancet linked by hood moulding.
Apsidal chancel has lancets linked by hoodmoulding. Dogtooth
cornice to nave and chancel. Slate bellcote between nave and
transepts with spire and wooden bellchamber.
INTERIOR: 5-bay arcade of brick, the piers without imposts.
These support an impressive barrel-shaped timber ceiling.
Light enters the building through clerestory and transept
windows, there being no windows on the ground-floor level. The
apse has been lined, probably in the early C20, with
alternating panels of light and dark marble, and the windows
in this part of the church are filled with stained glass by
Clayton and Bell.

Listing NGR: TQ3264678769

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26658881

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)