- Congregational Church, Penge
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Penge Congregational Church
Viewed from Penge High Street / Beckenham RoadGeneral information Architectural style Romanesque Revival architecture Town or city 172 High St, Penge, London Country England Construction started 1912 Technical details Structural system Ragstone masonry Design and construction Client Congregational Church Architect P. Morley Horder The Congregational Church is the Congregational church in Penge in the London Borough of Bromley located on Penge High Street between Sainsburys and Kenilworth Road. It was built 1912 to designs by P. Morley Horder "with passage aisles and clerestory. Shafts on large, excellently carved corbels."[1] The structure appears fortress-like in its Romanesque Revival architectural style massing. Its elevated situation and tower dominate Penge High Street, more so than the stone broach spire of St. John the Evangelist, Penge.
The minister is Rev. John Taylor, and the Church Secretary is Mrs Pam Owen. Sunday Services are at 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Penge Congregational Church is part of the Congregational Federation.
References
- ^ John Newman. West Kent and the Weald. The “Buildings of England” Series, First Edition, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and Judy Nairn, eds. (London: Penguin, 1969), p.433.
Categories:- Congregationalism
- Churches in Bromley
- Religious buildings completed in 1912
- 20th-century church buildings
- Romanesque Revival architecture in England
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