Location Name - St George the Martyr Church, Shirley
The Vicarage
Elstan Way
Croydon CR0 7QJ

Location ID: 10136135

Phone 1:020 8654 8747

Website:
http://www.stgeorgeschurch.co.uk (St George the Martyr Church, Shirley)

Email: [email protected]

 
Styles: Period 1950-1960, Period 1960-1970, Modern (post 1945)

Categories:
RELIGIOUS - Church halls
RELIGIOUS - Churches

Description:
A modern church built in 1952 with the addition of a Lady Chapel, Choir Gallery and Vestries in 1967. There is a Choir Vestry, which is sometimes used as a meeting room, and a Clery Vestry. The organ consul is upstairs in the gallery where the choir usually sit for services. It is light and spacious with a smooth curved ceiling. There is seating for about 140 congregation in the main body of the church. The church has a tower and is surrounded by gardens without headstones (there are no graves within the church grounds). There are very good acoustics and the church has been used for professional sound recordings of choir and classical music.

Jurisdictions::
Croydon, Hounslow

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