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).
One of the most important buildings of the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival in England, designed and paid for by the... Read More
A substantial early twentieth-century church designed by Peter Paul Pugin, youngest son of A. W. N. Pugin. As... Read More
A Regency church attributed to Philip Hardwick, significantly enlarged by F. A. Walters in the early twentieth century.... Read More
A late Romanesque revival church of 1953-4 by H. S. Goodhart-Rendel. The building is relatively plain for its date,... Read More
A large Gothic Revival church of 1878-81, the first of many in the diocese by F. A. Walters, here apparently working in... Read More
A plain brick mission church built to serve a dockland parish and paid for by the widow of the renowned Egyptologist... Read More
The church is a utilitarian structure of the 1950s, and is not of special architectural or historical interest. The... Read More
A pre-fabricated building, bought off-the-peg in 1960 to replace an earlier (1929) timber church.There was no... Read More
A plain, very loosely Italianate design of the early 1960s, built to serve the expanding post-war Catholic population... Read More
An austere German Romanesque-style church by the prolific Frederick Walters, built over a protracted period and later... Read More
A large Gothic Revival church of 1863-4 by E. W. Pugin. The benefactors were Major Henry Mostyn and his wife Elizabeth.... Read More
A late Gothic Revival church of 1886–7 by the architect J. K. Cole. Originally a Bible Christian (Methodist) church,... Read More
