Location Name - St Michael and All Angels with St James, Croydon
7 Poplar Walk
Croydon CR0 1UA

Location ID: 10135847

Phone 1:020 7620 0391

Website:
https://croydonfilmoffice.co.uk/ (Borough Film Office)
https://www.stmichaelscroydon.com/ (St Michael and All Angels with St James, Croydon)

Email: [email protected]

 
Styles: Period 1850-1900, Victorian, Gothic revival

Categories:
RELIGIOUS - Church halls
RELIGIOUS - Churches
RELIGIOUS - Vicarages

Description:
Grade I listed church, built by John Loughborough Pearson and completed in 1895. A very beautiful church, with additional furnishings from G E Street and G F Bodley, it was described by the poet John Betjeman as “one of Pearson's loveliest churches”. The church is cruciform in plan; both the nave and choir have aisles and there is an ambulatory encircling the sanctuary. Side chapels, arches, a gallery, world famous Father Willis organ. The church has an internal length of 150 ft and the nave vault is 53 ft high. There are two turrets on either side of the west window, and two stone spires.

General Notes:
Doubling / Stand In: Looks like a continental cathedral

Jurisdictions::
Croydon

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