Description

LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON GORRINGE PARK AVENUE, Mitcham TQ 27 SE (south side) 2/46 Church of St Barnabas GV II

Church. 1914. H P Burke-Downing, architect. Brown brick, some stone dressings; steeply pitched red tiled roof to eaves. Simplified late Gothic manner. Tall 5-bay nave with roof ridge running straight through into chancel; south aisle only (north aisle never constructed); no clerestory. South eastern bell tower, rising over east wall of chancel, narrow and slab-like with paired openings and saddleback roof; clock to south face. Arched moulded entrances to west (pointed) and south west (round headed); capitalless. South aisle with paired lancets between buttresses. East window of 3 lights, flanked by paired 2-light windows; cusped 'Y' tracery. West end with pair of 2-light 'Y' traceried windows separated by stone statue of saint; powerful flanking buttresses to projecting nave. Interior not inspected. London Volume 2: South B Cherry and N Pevsner.

Listing NGR: TQ2819570228

External Links

• Church of St Barnabas at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26355983

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