The Diocese of Southwark was founded in 1850, being elevated to become an archdiocese in 1965. It encompasses the areas of the London Boroughs south of the River Thames, the whole county of Kent and the Medway unitary authority.The cathedral is in Southwark, London, and is dedicated to St George. 207 churches were visited for Taking Stock (2009).
An architecturally unexceptional church building of the 1970s.The post-war expansion of Maidstone, with residential... Read More
Of historical significance as one of the earliest centres of the nineteenth-century Catholic revival in Kent. The... Read More
A large church of the 1960s, not of particular architectural or historical significance.In the 1940s Mass was said... Read More
St Joseph’s is typical of many substantial concrete-framed churches erected in the 1960s and 1970s and is a good... Read More
A long, plain and functional 1950s chapel built by the parishioners, using a prefabrication system.In 1943 a... Read More
A modest building of the 1880s built under the patronage of the Simpson family of Mitcham and designed by F. A.... Read More
Built in the 1930s as a dual church and social centre to serve the new mining community housed in Upper Deal. It is a... Read More
A simple but striking interwar church designed by the prolific Catholic architect W. C. Mangan. The tall roof is a... Read More
A Gothic Revival church of 1851-2 by Gilbert Blount. The planned spire was never built and the tower remained a stump.... Read More
A late Gothic Revival church of 1932-3 by Edward John Walters. Conservative for its date, the church retains few of its... Read More
A post-war church of mainstream design, serving a modern housing estate. Its brick campanile is a local landmark. The... Read More
Designed by two able architects, Osmond Bentley and Adrian Gilbert Scott, and built in stages during the 1920s, St... Read More
