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Latitude: 51.4319 / 51°25'54"N
Longitude: -0.1147 / 0°6'53"W
OS Eastings: 531150
OS Northings: 172004
OS Grid: TQ311720
Mapcode National: GBR FY.KQS
Mapcode Global: VHGRC.Y8PN
Plus Code: 9C3XCVJP+P4
Entry Name: Church of St Peter
Listing Date: 27 March 1981
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1065037
English Heritage Legacy ID: 204448
Also known as: St Peter's Church, Streatham
ID on this website: 101065037
Location: St Peter's Church, Lambeth, London, SW16
County: London
District: Lambeth
Electoral Ward/Division: Knight's Hill
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Lambeth
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Streatham St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
Tagged with: Church building
LEIGHAM COURT ROAD SW16
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5023
Church of St Peter
TQ 3172 31/643
TQ 3171 35/643
II*
2.
Choir and eastern 3 bays of nave, 1871 by Drew. West end 1888 by Fellowes Prynne.
Impressive church on raised site. Very tall nave with low pent aisles. Tall
chancel with apse and south chapel. North chancel aisle and transept, both with
extensions. Bowed baptistery at west end; high undercroft below this and nave.
Octagonal turrets supported by flying buttresses flank high west gable with great
wheel window. Other windows traceried in style. Stock brick with much decoration,
mostly flush, in red brick and stone; bands, diapering, window dressings. High
pitched tiled roofs except for aisles. Inside, five-bay nave with tall pointed
arcade on round stone piers; elsewhere, the polychromy continued. Facetted cut
brick decoration to arches. Nave roof has arch-braced collar beams alternating
with scissor trusses. Principals rest on corbelled shafts. Ribbed barreled chancel
roof; panelled walls, sedilia and piscina; elaborate reredos. Wrought iron screens
to south chapel.
Listing NGR: TQ3115072004
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