Listing Text

SOUTHWARK

TQ3178 NEWINGTON BUTTS
636-1/7/537 (West side)
27/09/72 Metropolitan Tabernacle

II

Baptist church with offices behind. 1859-61, 1898 (facade),
extensively rebuilt c1959. By WW Pocock; facade by Searle and
Hayes. For CH Spurgeon, the popular preacher.
MATERIALS: coursed ragstone with ashlar dressings, banded
rustication to ground floor; blocking course to sections
either side of portico.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 11 bays. Giant hexastyle Corinthian
portico with pediment and coffered ceiling, raised to street
on rusticated stone plinth, with entablature with dentil and
modillioned cornice continuing across outer sections; frieze
to front of portico inscribed with name of building. 3 central
doors; ground floor round-headed windows in round-arched
recesses have voussoirs and radial glazing to heads; outer
bays with through ways. 1st floor has moulded architraves to
windows with glazing bars, the 5 central ones being
round-headed and blind with swags in panels beneath bracketed
sills.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
The facade (for which it is listed) was a reconstruction by
Searle and Hayes after fire of 1898 of WW Pocock's church of
1859-61 (of which portico alone survives). Modern building
behind facade a rebuilding of c1959, following war damage.

Listing NGR: TQ3192878946