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Testun Gwreiddiol (Anodiad: EPW036284 / 1432977)
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St. Mark's Church, Waite Street. SE5 0HU.
(now New Peckham Mosque).
Church, now mosque.
Grade II Listed.
Constructed 1879-80. Architect: Norman Shaw, completed at west end 1931-2 by Victor Heal. (Additions to east end of 1883 by Shaw removed after WW2 bomb damage.)
MATERIALS: red brick with stone dressings; slate roofs, steeply pitched over nave, hipped over aisles.
PLAN: a hall church with wide, double-aisled 3-bay nave, chancel and short chancel aisles; some Perpendicular detail.
EXTERIOR: West end completed C20 with full height 1-bay extension of nave (as Baptistry?) with wooden clock tower with copper spike and larger, more elaborately traceried west window; flat roofed, 1-storey entrance bays to either side. Main body of church has tall, pointed windows with simple Y-tracery and hoodmoulds.
INTERIOR: has timber groin-vaulted nave and aisles of equal height. Freestanding octagonal brick piers and aisle walls encased in (original) cement dado, moulded to resemble wood. Chancel screen on dwarf stone wall is decorated within the apex of the chancel arch with Perpendicular detail.
English Heritage Building ID: 470793
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-470793-new-peckham-mosque-former-church-of-st-m
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