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East Greenwich
St Andrew & St Michael

Built: 1900 - 02
Architect: Basil Champneys
Diocesan Record Office: 

The church was made redundant and demolished in 1968. The building was in the area covered by the East Greenwich Team Ministry.

Description

"Designed by Basil Champneys, and built in 1900-2. The church was partly built with the money from the demolition and sale of St Michael's, Wood Street, in the City, the font of which was brought here.

It is an attractive design, carried out in stock bricks, with pantiled roofs. Passage aisles run through the buttresses: the arcades have octagonal piers opposite the buttresses, and the bays are subdivided by smaller arches. A clerestory and barrel roof: there are no aisle windows. At the west is a narthex, with flying buttresses above: the window is, as usual, large. Two octagonal turrets. The chancel is much raised, with rooms below.

But the church is quite out of place. The district was expected to develop into a pleasant suburb, but it never did: there is only a thin line of small houses, stretched out beside the road to the Blackwall Tunnel, along which lorries continuously thunder. The church is over-shadowed by enormous gasworks, and surrounded by a high fence of concrete posts and wire, with locked gates."

(from 'Parish Churches of London', Basil F L Clarke, Batsford, 1966)

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