St John the Evangelist, Penge

Saint John the Evangelist is the Church of England parish church of Penge (now in the London Borough of Bromley), in the Diocese of Rochester, Greater London. At the time of its erection, Penge was in Surrey and had been an exclave of Battersea. It is located on Penge High Street, and was erected 1847 to designs of architects Edwin Nash & J. N. Round. Later in 1861, Nash alone added the gabled aisles, and in 1866 the transepts. The Pevsner Buildings of England series guides describe it as "Rock-faced ragstone. West tower and stone broach spire. Geometrical tracery, treated in Nash's quirky way. The best thing inside is the open timber roofs, those in the transepts especially evocative, eight beams from all four directions meeting in mid air.^[2] It has been Grade II listed since 1990.^[3]

St John the Evangelist's Church
51.4167°N 0.0550°W / 51.4167; -0.0550
Location	2 St John's Road, Penge, London SE20 7EQ
Country	United Kingdom
Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Conservative evangelical[1]
Website	www.penge-anglicans.org
Architecture
Architect(s)	Edwin Nash, J. N. Round
Style	Victorian architecture, Gothic Revival architecture
Years built	1850-1866
Administration
Diocese	Rochester
Archdeaconry	Bromley and Bexley
Deanery	Penge
Parish	Penge
Clergy
Minister(s)	Nigel Poole
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated	15 January 1990
Reference no.	1186832

The early funding of the church came from John Dudin Brown who was a Thames wharfinger.^[4] The organist and choir master from 1872 to 1903 was the composer Arthur Carnall (1852–1904).^[5]

See also

• Penge Congregational Church

References

1. http://thegospelpartnerships.org.uk/network/app/partnership/6/title/south-east-gospel-partnership
2. 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.
3. Historic England. "Church of St John the Evangelist (Grade II) (1186832)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
4. Janet Sondheimer, ‘Brown, Ann Dudin (1822–1917)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 11 March 2017
5. "Penge People". Penge Heritage Trail. Retrieved 14 February 2024.