Battersea Places of Worship - Church of England

Battersea Places of Worship
Roman Catholic and Free Churches

Roman Catholic

The Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Trott Street, near High Street, a temporary church opened before 1887. The present church opened in 1893, architect F,A. Walters, additions and modifications 1970.

The original Sacred Heart Church in Trott Street, was in fact an iron church which was a part of a donation, in 1874, by a lady named the Countess de Stacpoole. The church we know today was not, in fact, dedicated until 1893.

The pieces of the original metal church were offered for sale and were purchased by William Edward Baily, a major (if sleeping) partner in Mansfield Brewery, and could safely be described as an eccentric. He had built up a natural history museum at his home in Mansfield, and took the contents with him when he moved to Penzance, Cornwall, in 1882. He continued to build up the museum and eventually bought the iron building previously used as the Roman Catholic Church in Battersea in 1892 and had it dismantled, moved down to his home in Penzance, and re-erected to house the museum (opening it to the public in 1895 with a curator, William Daws).
Shortly before his death Baily offered the museum to Mansfield Town Council, who, after sending down a delegation to view it, accepted the offer. It was thus dismantled and moved again, this time to Mansfield, where it re-opened in 1904, complete with contents and Mr Daws as curator.
The building gradually deteriorated and was scrapped in 1935. The photograph below shows what it looked like (on its Mansfield site) in about 1904. [Notes thanks to Tom Champagne]

Associated with the Sacred Heart Church is the Salesian College.

St Vincent de Paul, Altenburg Gardens, first set up in 1903, and the church built 1906-7, architect Kelly & Dickie

Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Joseph, 8a Battersea Park Road. The original small church was constructed in 1868 now forms the Lady Chapel. In about 1879, a 2nd, larger building was constructed next to, and attached to, the original church.

Baptist

Battersea Chapel Baptist Church - Wye Street, SW11 2SR, the present building dates from 1973 however a history back to 1672 is claimed connected wirh the Sir Walter St. John school.

Northcote Road Baptist Church, Northcote Road, 1887-9, architect E.W. Mountford

Tabernacle, Battersea Park Road (Long closed?)
Baptist Mission, 181 Battersea Park Road

Chatham Road (Long closed?)

Providence, Meyrick Road (Long closed?)

York Road (Long closed?), the first Baptist Meeting House in York Road was built 1736.

Methodist

Methodist Church, at Clapham Common end of Broomword Road, 1899, Arts & Crafts style, architect Read & MacDonald, replaced about 1987 by Ash Court, Methodist Homes Housing Scheme.

Broomwood Methodist Church, Kyrle Road

Methodist Church, Westbridge Road, (closed). Methodists met above a joiner's shop in King Street (now Westbridge Rd) before they built a church in the same road in 1845.

Weslian Methodist Chapel, Queenstown Road, built 1882, destroyed WW2, garage on site.

Methodist Church and School, Mallisin Road, built 1878, architect James Speed, now Ransom Pentecostal African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Primative Methodist, Battersea New Road (Battersea & Brixton Circuit) (Long closed)

Primative Methodist, GrayshotRoad (Lavender Hill Circuit) (Long closed?)

Methodist Mission, York Road

United Primative Methodist Movement, Mallinson Road, built 1878, disused

Greek Orthodox

The Greek Orthodox Church of St Nectarius, Wycliffe Road. Originally, St Bartholomew, a Church of England church built 1900.

Congregational and United Reformed Church (The United Reformed Church was formed in 1972 by the union of the Congregational Church in England and Wales and the Presbyterian Church of England)

Congregational Chapel, York Road, 1870, incorporating part of 1736 Baptist Chapel

St Andrew's, 1 Altenburgh Gardens, Built 1886 with wooden shingled spire, collapsed 1977, rebuilt, was Presbyterian, now United Reformed Church. New building opened November 2002. Picture is from a postcard of 1906

Congregational Church, Battersea Bridge Road, built 1866, architect H Fuller. Demolished?? date unknown.

Welsh Congregational Mission Chapel, 131 Battersea Rise, build about 1900, became a car showroom.

The Shaftesbury Mission

The Shaftesbury Christian Centre, 2 Austin Road, SW11 5JP.

The Shaftesbury Welcome Mission in Doddington Grove ran Sunday school, Girls Life Brigade and a youth club, it was founded before 1900.

Brethern (Plymouth)

Falcon Grove Hall (Long closed?)

122 Battersea High Street (Long closed?)

Welsh Presbyterian Chapel, Beauchamp Road SW11 1PQ

Church of the Nazarene, 2 Grant Road, Winstanley Estate, built 1968-70, architect Green, Lloyd & Son

Thomas Memorial Church of the Nazarene, 68 Battersea Rise, founded by Welsh businessman David Thomas as the Holiness Mission in 1907, union took place with the Church of the Nazarene in 1955. The building (on the left of the photo below), is an eighteenth century house that had been used as council offices before the building of Battersea Town Hall.

United Pentecostal Church Life Tabernacle , 32 Battersea Park Road, SW11 4HY

Elim Pentecostal Church

Ransom Pentecostal African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 2A Mallinson Road

Ridley Hall Evangelical Church, Broughton Street

Celestial Church of Christ, meets at Caius House, Holman Rd, Off Lombard Rd

Church of God of Prophecy, Battersea Central Mission, 20-22 York Road

Evangelical Church of Yahweh, a Nigerian based church, 2 Stormont Road, built 1969-70, architect Beard, Bennett & Wilkins.

Battersea Christian Centre, London City Mission, 120 Battersea Bridge Road, London SW11 3AF

The Battersea Mission, 20-22 York Road, Battersea, SW11 3QE

Church of Christ (Iglesia Ni Cristo), 48 Parkgate Road (Church of Christ from the Philippines)

Battersea Seventh Day Adventist Church, Priory Hall, Prince of Wales Drive, SW8 4BL

The Assemblies of the First Born, (formerly St Stephen's Church) Battersea Bridge Road & Kersley Street, SW11 3AP

Other Mission Halls, little information available and probably mostly demolished by now

Bennerley Mission Hall, Bennerley Road, 46 Bennerley Road, built 1886, architect W Harbrow - Now Battersea Spiritualist Church

Baptist Mission, 181 Battersea Park Road

Milton Congregational Hall, Cabul Road

Gospel Hall, Doddington Grove

London City Mission, 18 Eversley Road

Victoria Hall, Battersea High Street (The Salvation Army met in Battersea High Street, is this their hall?)

The Salvation Army used the Park Town Hall in Prairie Street.

Railway Mission Hall, Plough Road

Church of Christ, Railway Arch, Battersea Park Road

? 48 Speke Road

People's Helping Hand Mission, 36 York Road

Royal Association in Aid of the Deaf & Dumb, 40 Altenberg Gardens

Christian Spiritualist Church & Healing Centre, 63 Battersea Rise - This was on the 1st floor of a private house, I recall a statue of Christ with outstreached arms in the bay window. There at least during the 1950s and 60s as I recall.

See the Wandsworth Council Web-Site for other current Places of Worship in and around Battersea

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