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Latitude: 51.4894 / 51°29'22"N
Longitude: -0.178 / 0°10'40"W
OS Eastings: 526597
OS Northings: 178296
OS Grid: TQ265782
Mapcode National: GBR 4N.77
Mapcode Global: VHGQY.VTSK
Plus Code: 9C3XFRQC+QR
Entry Name: Church of St Peter (Armenian Church)
Listing Date: 7 November 1984
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1190125
English Heritage Legacy ID: 203727
Also known as: St. Peter's Anglican Church, Kensington
ID on this website: 101190125
Location: South Kensington, Kensington and Chelsea, London, SW7
County: London
District: Kensington and Chelsea
Electoral Ward/Division: Courtfield
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Kensington and Chelsea
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: West Brompton St Mary with St Peter and St Jude
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Church building
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/09/2012
TQ 2678 SE
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CRANLEY GARDENS SW7
Church of St Peter (Armenian Church)
GV
II*
Church. 1866-67, designed and built by the office of C.J Freake, with additions by W.D Caröe and others, principally of 1907-09 and 1922-23. Kentish ragstone with ashlar dressings. Slate roof. Decorated Gothic style.
Tower in north-west corner, with three-stage broach steeple. Vestries and hall on north side behind vicarage, by Caröe, 1907-09. Interior is cruciform with north and south aisles and transepts, apsidal east end. Four-bay nave arcade to crossing arch with clerestorey having alternate pairs of quatrefoil-headed and trefoil-headed lights; triple arches flanking transepts, and chancel arch to sanctuary. Nave walls originally polychrome brick, now whitewashed; west gallery by Caröe, 1909. Choir (under crossing) and sanctuary altered and embellished by Caröe and Passmore, 1922-23, with dormer lights, and reredos, sedilia, and canopy work richly carved by Nathaniel Hitch. Organ case on south side and gallery in north transept by Caröe. Morning chapel off north transept by Caröe, 1907-09, with lierne vault and carved figures by Hitch and Harold Whitaker, and Cosmati-style floor. Oak pulpit byJ S Alder, 1902. Stained glass by many hands, notably clerestorey windows by Mary Lowndes, 1904-06. St Peter's was built by C.J Freake as an estate church for his building developments on the Smith's Charity Estate, complementing his previous St Paul's, Onslow Square (q.v.).
Listing NGR: TQ2659778296
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